The UK government considered sending asylum seekers to Iraq in a programme like its Rwanda-scheme despite its own foreign office advising against travel there. Government documents seen by Sky News revealed that the government wanted to process asylum seekers who had arrived in the UK and was in correspondence with Iraqi officials. The UK government currently advises its nationals against all travel to Iraq apart from the northern Kurdistan region. According to the report, Iraqi officials were “open” to the proposal and progress had been made but Baghdad did not want a formal or public arrange…