Why is it central? What's got into the man? Asylum seekers - framed as a problem - are in the 2024 manifesto, but it takes up a grand total of two pages, most of which is about creating a new Border Command and hiring more asylum caseworkers to clear the backlog (we don't hear a lot about that).
Britain has legal obligations to asylum seekers. Attempts to stop illegal immigration at source will never work. (And it's only as visible as it is because of earlier, failed attempts to stop it at source.) It's a trivial proportion of immigration. Immigration itself is (at worst) neutral, not bad.
You'd think Mr Chair A Meeting Draft A Memo Across His Brief would have mentioned *one* of these facts by now.