Fresh on the heels of Boris Johnson’s resignation as Prime Minister of the UK, we reflect on immigration policy in the UK, how we’ve gotten to where we are, what BoJo’s resignation implies—and what it doesn’t. 
Since early May, the UK has made a lot of noise with a new policy that it describes as world-leading, and that most advocates describe as lunacy: an immigration agreement with Rwanda, which would see every asylum seeker arriving irregularly to the UK deported to Rwanda. But before we get into how the UK-Rwanda deal ties in with Boris Johnson’s resignation we loop back and consider the modern history. There are decades worth of bad decisions, wishful thinking, perverse incentives, and poor policy-making, that have culminated into turning the UK, at once, into a country with a large and relatively well-integrated immigrant community, and also a toxic environment in which to be an immigrant—let alone in which to arrive as an immigrant.

Episode hosted by Joel Hernandez, produced by Sonia Nandzik-Herman, edited by Majid Bahkshi and Douglas Herman, music by Eamon Kelly.
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