The government will not abolish the law which allows asylum seekers to move where they want to, the Minister for Migration, Morgan Johansson, told Swedish Television News. This despite a decision in his own party to do just that, if they got into government.

The Social Democrat Party took the decision in 2009, after a successful campaign by leaders of local councils in towns such as Malmö and Södertälje, which have attracted a disproportionate amount of asylum seekers. The argument was that more municipalities need to take a bigger share of the asylum seekers, and that the state should be able...