The Guardian view on refugee rights: a warning from history | Editorial

Rishi Sunak’s pretence of serious statecraft is belied by his embrace of shabby populism when it comes to immigration lawBritain did not sign up to the 1951 United Nations refugee convention by accident, nor was the country bamboozled into the European convention on human rights and cooperation with the Strasbourg court that enforces the convention. It was an architect of those institutions.The ambition was to lay solid foundations of European cooperation for the establishment of a peacefu