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Call me an old cynic but if you confiscated the entire courier e-bike population of London and flogged it second hand, you'd barely have enough to buy a round of fancy coffee. Have you seen the state of repair? Half of them spent the noughties in a Dutch canal.

How would an asylum seeker/refugee transport an e-bike or Audi on a small boat? Unless, they had already passed the immigration process and lived, worked and paid tax legally in the UK to buy those items. This is badly thought up policy and communicated terribly.

They haven’t changed any words, it’s just how some media has re-framed the words. In the original article below it does specify the detail about personal/large haul. I think I’ll wait until the official brief has been released rather than believe any newspaper. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

theguardian.comAsylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office ministerIdea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK

Basically, if they have a huge amount that is clearly not personal and for the purpose of selling then it could be used as a contribution to their living costs but personal jewellery will not be. I’d rather wait until the full details are properly announced than believe any newspaper.