The UK Government's confirmed plans for a major overhaul of the country's immigration system to stem the flow of illegal immigration.

Asylum seekers will need to wait at least 20 years for permanent residency and won't be guaranteed financial support.

Failed asylum seekers and their families may face deportation to countries like Syria.

The UK Government claims the country's immigration rules haven't kept up with a changing world.

UK Correspondent Rod Liddle told Mike Hosking there’s a lot of devil in the details.

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Well, welcome back Opportunity. I think I have that right.

Opportunity is the former "The Opportunities Party". Now it's just "The Opportunity Party".

It has a new leader and a new tax policy. They have been looking for a leader for ages and they even advertised.

None of this is a good sign.

Their biggest problem is the market is full – there is no room for another political party.

There was no room 10 years ago and there's even less room now.

Now, I don't, but you could argue that as the MMP environment evolves and matures some nuance is sought by a frustrated electorate. A boutique operator if you will.

The major parties have faded and the days of National and Labour cracking 40% are gone.

The days of a two-party Government might well be gone as well. So as it all fragments, surely there must be room for a small operator wedging its way in between, say, National and Labour as a sort of mid-way, subtle alternative.

The trouble is, and I argued this years ago when Gareth Morgan was running the joint, 5% is actually a lot of votes and very few, if any, crack it.

Look at ACT's journey – for years they needed a deal in Epsom to work the system and the coattail.

There is a reason United vanished.

What they should have done is run Morgan in an electorate. Name recognition would have helped, and he may have got the seat, got 2%, and had a party of 2-3 MPs. Being in and staying in is easier than getting there in the first place.

Here is their other issue: nuance is not what we do. That’s why radicals are gaining support all over the world, from Pauline Hanson in Australia to the minor players who make up Government's in the likes of Holland and Germany.

You need to be more left, or right, than centre.

Could we also argue that New Zealand First is centrist, given they are the only party that can legitimately claim the ability to deal with either National or Labour?

So good on them for keeping the Opportunity dream alive.

They're still here after a decade. They're either visionaries whose time is yet to come, or dreamers who can't read the room.

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International relations and geopolitics have become increasingly complex in the last few decades, many countries in the Pacific pulled between China and the United States – the two superpowers at odds with each other.

But former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull believes the relationships with the two are equally important.

“The relationship with the US is obviously the bedrock of our security relationship,” he told Mike Hosking.

“Whereas the relationship with China is, you know, much more focused on economics and trade, but the two, these two superpowers are absolutely critical partners.”

China has been working to grow its influence in the Pacific, the area presenting several strategic opportunities for the nation – but is it a cause for concern?

“The reality is that China is a superpower,” Turnbull told Hosking.

“It is, you know, an economic peer equal or close to an equal of the United States, and they’re seeking to exert influence around the world and in our region.”

He says they want to maintain strong relationships with their Pacific Island neighbours, and one way they did that while he was Prime Minister was through the funding of the Coral Cable, which links Australia, Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands.

“We thought that was a better outcome from a security point of view,”

“But also, it was a better outcome for them because they weren’t in debt.”

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