The best solution to the small boats is to expand safe, legal pathways to Britain for asylum seekers.
We should take pride in seven decades of refugee protection, and it is a principle we must uphold in the future too.
Under the government’s New Plan for Immigration, there is a risk that people like her will be turned away, or only given temporary protection.
Tough talk will get the Home Secretary nowhere, and under-funding the system for processing applications is deeply counter-productive.