BRITAIN TO WITHDRAW FROM GENEVA CONVENTION ON REFUGEES?
A memo leaked in September 91 reveals proposals from Minister Michael Heseltine and David Mellor to a secret ministerial meeting on asylum that Britain withdraw altogether from the 1951 Geneva Convention on Refugees which 103 countries have signed. Heseltine's justification for this dramatic suggestion was "the pressure on housing" created by the refugees.
In his memo the Foreign Minister suggests as an alternative solution, to send all asylum seekers back to "international camps" or "safe havens" in their countries of origin, in which claims could be assessed.
Source: "Statewatch" No.5, November/December 91