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The measure was part of a 'nuclear option' for tackling the asylum issue which would have seen migrants deported immediately with little right of appeal.
The memo was part of a package of 'radical steps' after asylum applications rose to more than 84,000 in 2022
A previously-secret report written while Tony Blair was Prime Minister suggested deporting refugees to Turkey, Kenya and South Africa in the early 2000s
Proposals put to the former PM included a detention camp on Mull, newly-released files from 2003 show.
Tony's Blair's Labour government considered setting up a holding camp on the Isle of Mull in an attempt to drive down the numbers of asylum seekers…