Ascension Island has come under the spotlight as reports suggest it is being considered as a potential destination for Channel migrants.

Sending Channel migrants to Ascension Island is a “non-starter”, ministers have been advised by officials. Senior officials who helped draw up the first offshore asylum agreement with Rwanda ...

The government is to create a marine reserve almost as big as the UK in the Atlantic waters of Ascension Island.

The island is governed as part of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, with Saint Helena situated a further 800 miles to the southeast.

Multiple reports say ministers and officials are considering the island as a “plan B” if the scheme to send migrants to Rwanda fails. plan B” if the scheme to send migrants to Rwanda fails.

TalkTV presenter Rosanna Lockwood says UK ministers are considering sending asylum seekers to Ascension Island, which is 4,000 miles from Britain, in another ploy to stop small boats.

Alan Nicholls, a member of the Ascension Island council, said moving asylum seekers more than 4,000 miles to the British overseas territory would be a "logistical nightmare" and not well received ...

Australian indigenous leaders have called for a ‘week of silence’ after a referendum to recognise the country’s First Peoples was defeated.

Speaking to the UK Parliament's Home Affairs Select Committee, she said the Australian model had "brought about huge suffering for people, who are guilty of no more than seeking asylum, and it has ...