Planes have changed: Britain’s controversial asylum policy
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🗓️ 15 June 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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The European Court of Human rights foiled Britain’s plans to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda yesterday by holding that British courts must first find the policy legal. The Taliban have proven surprisingly adept tax collectors, though they will spend much of the funds on defence rather than improving the lives of struggling Afghans. And the world is buying too few electric vehicles to meaningfully reduce carbon emissions.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from the economist. |
| 0:07.1 | In New York, I'm John Fassman. |
| 0:09.6 | And in London, I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 0:11.8 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:18.1 | Afghanistan's economy is in a wretched state. |
| 0:21.4 | Joblessness is rampant, food prices are rising, and sanctions have left banks cut off from |
| 0:26.6 | the world. |
| 0:28.2 | But the Taliban has proven surprisingly a depth tax collectors. |
| 0:32.2 | How it spends the money is another story. |
| 0:37.1 | And electric vehicles are around in ever greater numbers, as they should be if transportation |
| 0:42.4 | is ever to go fully fossil free. |
| 0:45.4 | But for a whole battery of reasons, there are more roadblocks ahead on the way to that |
| 0:49.9 | future. |
| 0:55.9 | So stop though. |
| 1:04.8 | If Britain's government had its way, right now, scores of asylum seekers who'd arrived |
| 1:09.3 | on British shores would be in Rwanda. |
| 1:12.3 | Back in April, the government unveiled a plan to give them a one-way ticket to the country |
| 1:16.9 | and pay the government there to deal with their claims. |
| 1:20.5 | That plan was met with plenty of resistance and outcry on both moral and legal grounds. |
| 1:26.6 | As court challenge after court challenge was lodged, Prime Minister Boris Johnson remained |
| 1:31.3 | resolute yesterday ahead of the first planned deportations. |
| 1:35.8 | We always said that this was going to be a long process. |
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