More foreign sex offenders could be deported as they will be banned from claiming asylum under new changes.

The Home Office will bar migrants put on the sex offenders’ register after committing an offence in the UK from being granted refugee status.

It follows the scandal of Clapham chemical attacker Abdul Ezedi being granted asylum despite receiving a suspended sentence in 2018 for sexual assault and exposure.

He went on to throw alkaline into the face of his ex-partner and her two children, leading to a nationwide manhunt before his body was found in the River Thames.

Home Office insiders believe their decision to include all sex offences in the legal changes could lead to immigration judges concluding that perverts sentenced to less than 12 months behind bars should be deported because they are not “conducive to the public good”.

The UK previously only treated an offence which led to a sentence of more than 12 months as a “particularly serious crime”.

But Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: “This is too little, too late from a Labour Government that has scrapped our deterrent and overseen the worst year ever for small boat crossings – with a record 10,000 people crossing this year already.

“Foreign criminals pose a danger to British citizens and must be removed, but so often this is frustrated by spurious legal claims based on human rights claims, not asylum claims.

“The Conservatives had already tabled tough, clear reforms to remove all foreign criminals and to disapply the Human Rights Act so activists and lawyers cannot block deportations. But Labour voted against our measures – they are not serious about controlling our borders.”

Mr Philp added: “This is a piece of desperate pre-election performance.”

Foreign sex offenders will still be able lodge appeals against deportations using human rights laws.

The new changes – announced by the Home Office last night – will not prevent foreign crooks from using Article 8 or Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights to fight to stay.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is carrying out a seperate review into how Article 8 is being abused in immigration cases.

Ms Cooper said: “Sex offenders who pose a risk to the community should not be allowed to benefit from refugee protections in the UK.

“We are strengthening the law to ensure these appalling crimes are taken seriously.”

The action comes as the Government has vowed to halve violence against women and girls in a decade.

Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips said: “That’s exactly why we are taking action to ensure there are robust safeguards across the system, including by clamping down on foreign criminals who commit heinous crimes like sex offences.”

The new measure will be introduced in an amendment to the Government’s Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill currently going through Parliament, the Home Office said.

It is hoped the move will send a clear message that sex offences are treated with the “seriousness they deserve”.

And people posing as immigration lawyers could be hit with fines of up to £15,000.

The Home Office said there is “growing evidence” that fake lawyers are “acting as middlemen for those trying to abuse the immigration system”.

Officials said migrants are being given “poor quality or outright fraudulent immigration advice”.

Dame Angela Eagle, the minister for border security, said: “Shameless individuals offering immigration advice completely illegally must be held to account.

“That is why we are introducing these tough financial penalties for rogue firms and advisers, better protecting the integrity of our immigration system as well as vulnerable people in genuine need of advice, as we restore order to our asylum system through the Plan for Change.

“This will build on the vital work of the Immigration Advice Authority in regulating the immigration advice sector.”

A loophole in the law which allows someone banned from giving immigration legal advice to still do so with supervision will also be closed by the Government.

This will prevent people who are subject to a ban from setting up a new enterprise and keeping working.