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  Unfortunately or not (depending upon your viewpoint) once they are in UK waters they have a legal right to claim asylum. Whether such asylum is subsequently granted is, of course, another matter.
  
  To adopt a policy of sending them back begs the question how would we enforce it. If we repelled them from UK waters by force then there is clearly a far greater chance of a tragic outcome, particularly in adverse weather. A policy that endangered human life would raise concerns, I suspect.
  
  If we repatriate them immediately after landing in the UK, then we are not diligently assessing the validity or otherwise of their asylum claims.
  
  Answers (with due objectivity of course) on a postcard please to Charlie Elphicke.

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