Up to a point — I recall Cooper saying that the Rwanda scheme was impracticable as well as unethical. I remember it because it made me so cross. You need to start with ‘unethical’ and figure out how to avoid it. ‘Ethical’ is not an afterthought.

If you want more significant numbers of asylum seekers to work and find their own housing, rather than rely on statutory asylum provision, then you presumably need to…allow them to work? What am I missing

We need to fight this on every term. Even if you don't care about migrant rights (which is stupid), you should care about 100 other things that this will affect. Don't let the cover of a migration story put you off.

Any politician who is taking seriously that the next election might be lost to a far-right populist party, should be doing all they can to strengthen protections for vulnerable people. If this is lost, it will go down in history as a moment where everything collapsed.