Iceland's three-party coalition ... had mounted within the left-right coalition on issues ranging from foreign policy to asylum seekers and energy. The coalition had been made up of the ...

Iceland's opposition Social Democrats ... the coalition collapsed over the treatment of immigrants and asylum-seekers, as well as energy and housing issues. Benediktsson resigned in October ...

The Prime Minister will tell European leaders in Iceland that attempts to police ... to pass into law measures designed to stop asylum seekers crossing the English Channel in small boats.