Overview

• In a Spectator interview, Robert Jenrick said asylum seekers should be detained in camps with facilities he described as “rudimentary prisons.”
• He called for a sustained period of net emigration that could last a decade and argued recent legal migration has been more damaging than illegal entries because of scale.
• Jenrick condemned the post‑Brexit points‑based immigration system as the worst policy mistake of his lifetime.
• He welcomed parts of Nigel Farage’s deportation plan but urged the Conservatives to go further, rejecting exemptions for women and children that he says smugglers would exploit.
• Reaction split quickly: Keir Starmer ruled out leaving the ECHR, while senior Tories Matt Vickers and Suella Braverman endorsed a net‑emigration push, increasing pressure on party leadership.