Moving asylum seekers 4,000 miles from the UK to Ascension Island would be a “logistical nightmare” and not well received by residents, a member of the island’s council has said.
Alan Nicholls’s comments came after it was reported that Priti Patel, the home secretary, had ordered officials to explore “inhumane” plans to process asylum seekers on a remote volcanic island in the South Atlantic.
Mr Nicholls told Today on BBC Radio 4 that he only found out about the plan through a journalist. “Looking at cost and logistics, we are some 4,000-plus miles away from the UK, I would have thought it would be extremely expensive and a bit of a logistical nightmare to get asylum seekers here to Ascension because of the fact we
