LEOMINSTER Conservative MP Bill Wiggin has called for radical changes to the asylum system to deliver what he claims would be a safer and fairer scheme for genuine refugees and the British public.

Mr Wiggin has called on the Government to take action to secure the country's borders at a time of heightened tension and set out a series of proposals to improve the system long term.

He explained the first duty of any Government is to protect the public. "It seems increasingly clear that we no longer know who is walking the streets of our towns and cities," he added.

"The Government must take immediate action to introduce 24 hour a day monitoring of all ports of entry and should ensure that no person is allowed to walk the streets of Herefordshire and Worcestershire until they have been properly vetted by the security services.

"We also need a safer and fairer asylum system in the long term, where the genuine refugee is helped and the impostor is not.

"The next Conservative Government will therefore introduce small 'one-stop' accommodation centres for all new arrivals so that their applications can be processed quickly and efficiently.

"We will also look at the international conventions relating to asylum, as it is clearly absurd that Britain should have to grant refugee status to people such as Taliban fighters who have recently been trying to kill our own troops," he continued.