The home secretary has announced a shakeup of family reunion rules for refugees in a bid to deter small boat crossings.

Yvette Cooper said people smugglers were using the promise of family reunion to promote dangerous journeys across the Channel.

Addressing the House of Commons, Ms Cooper said the government would now suspend new applications under the existing family reunion route for refugees until a new framework had been introduced.

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She highlighted how refugee families arriving in the UK were seeking homelessness assistance, putting pressure on local authorities that was "not sustainable".

Ms Cooper told MPs the government would deliver an asylum policy statement later this year, which would set out

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