David Blunkett is to appeal against a High Court ruling which challenges a new law removing benefits from late asylum applicants.

"Frankly, I'm personally fed up with having to deal with a situation where parliament debates issues and the judges then overturn them. Parliament did debate this, we did mean what we said and, on behalf of the British people, we are going to implement it," the home secretary said.

Oliver Letwin, the shadow home secretary, called for the current asylum system to be scrapped following the High Court's ruling.

"This confirms our view that the entire asylum system needs to be scrapped and replaced with a quota of genuine refugees," he said.

Today's Telegraph reports that the prime minister has ordered new legislation to limit the role of judges in the interpretation of international human rights obligations.

Also under consideration is the option of issuing new guidelines to judges on how to interpret the new rules for refugees.