What are the ‘safe and legal routes’ the government says refugees must take to Britain?

The government says it will only accept refugees arriving on ‘safe and legal routes’. Lizzie Dearden looks at what those are

French police officers pass a deflated dinghy on the beach in Wimereux near Calais (PA)

Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman are under renewed pressure over the the lack of safe and legal routes into the UK after six migrants died when their small boat capsized in the Channel.

Campaigners and MPs have warned that more people will die trying to reach British shores until there are significant changes to the government’s asylum policy.

The Home Office has repeatedly said that refugees should use “safe and legal routes” to reach Britain, but critics have been swift to point out that such routes are currently very limited and weighted heavily in favour of countries including Ukraine.