Abbott linked to UK remote detention plan

Updated September 30 2020 - 6:17pm, first published 6:13pm
Tony Abbott was reportedly behind a plan for the UK to send asylum seekers to the south Atlantic.
Tony Abbott was reportedly behind a plan for the UK to send asylum seekers to the south Atlantic.

Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott may have prompted a now-abandoned British government plan to send asylum seekers to remote UK territories in the south Atlantic, the Financial Times reports.

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