“Controlling who comes here is an essential task of government,” wrote the British and Danish prime ministers, Keir Starmer and Mette Frederiksen, in a jointly authored article in The Guardian in December.
“That’s why we are both taking practical action to fix the asylum system,” they continued. “Denmark has led the way here, with tough but fair reforms which have delivered results.”
But what are these reforms, better known as the much-touted ‘Danish model’ of immigration? And can the immigration and asylum policies of a country of six million people really provide a useful case study when considering the needs of a country such as the UK, whose population is more than ten times that size?
