Suella Braverman latest news: Home secretary ‘puts migrants at risk’ with ‘invasion’ claim

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Suella Braverman calls ‘broken’ immigration system an ‘invasion on southern coast’

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Suella Braverman has been accused of putting lives at risk by claiming Britain was under invasion by migrants, the day after a firebomb attack at an asylum processing facility in Dover.

Refugee charities said the embattled home secretary’s remarks were “heinous” and “dehumanising” for refugees and migrants, adding that she also put Home Office staff and volunteers at risk.

Labor accused her of “highly irresponsible” language that did not take public safety seriously.

Responding to questions in the Commons yesterday, Ms Braverman suggested that the Labor party was not “serious” about stopping illegal immigration.

She said: “Illegal migration is out of control and too many people are interested in playing political parlor games, covering up the truth than solving the problem,” adding that her policies were designed to repel an “invasion” on the south coast.

Ms Braverman challenged critics to “get rid” of her after she rejected calls to resign over her response to overcrowding at a short-stay processing facility in Manston, Kent.

The home secretary denied ignoring legal advice to procure more lodging amid warnings of dangerous conditions at the centre.

Key PointsShow latest update 1667289046BP profits double amid calls for windfall tax rise

BP has revealed that profits more than doubled over the past quarter (Zoe Tidman writes).

The London-listed oil giant reported that underlying replacement cost profits – a measure preferred by BP – surged to $8.2 bn (£7.1 bn), compared with $3.3bn (£2.9bn) a year earlier.

It was significantly ahead of the $6.1bn (£5.3bn) expected by market analysts.

The report comes amid calls for a higher windfall tax on the profits of oil and gas giants.

Liam James1 November 2022 07:50

1667287579Suella Braverman ‘putting lives at risk’ with ‘migrant invasion’

Suella Braverman has been accused of putting lives at risk after claiming the south coast was facing an “invasion” by migrants, the day after a firebomb attack in Dover (Kate Devlin writes).

Refugee charities described the embattled home secretary’s comments as “heinous” and “dehumanising”, while labor accused her of “highly irresponsible” language that did not take public safety seriously.

The row erupted as prime minister Rishi Sunak came under growing pressure over his decision to reappoint Ms Braverman to the role last week, just days after she resigned for breaking the ministerial code.

Liam James1 November 2022 07:26

1667285307Treasury ‘warns of tax rises’ to fill financial black hole

The Treasury has reported of “inevitable” tax rises as prime minister Rishi Sunak moves to fill a “black hole” of up to £50bn in public finances.

Mr Sunak and chancellor Jeremy Hunt yesterday agreed to freeze the thresholds at which people start to pay the different rates of income tax and national insurance, according to The Daily Telegraph.

Mr Hunt is looking to fill the shortfall through a combination of 50 per cent tax rises and 50 per cent public spending cuts in his Autumn Statement of November 17, the paper said.

The Treasury said that “everybody would need to contribute more in tax in the years ahead”, without providing further details.

“It is going to be rough,” a Treasury source told the BBC.

“The truth is that everybody will need to contribute more in tax if we are to maintain public services.”

Given the scale of borrowing for energy bills support and the Covid-19 pandemic, the source said the department “won’t be able to fill the fiscal black hole through spending cuts alone”.

Alisha Rahaman Sarkar1 November 2022 06:48

1667284379What is the Manston asylum centre?

Home secretary Suella Braverman is under mounting pressure to relieve “catastrophic overcrowding” at Britain’s main asylum processing center for Channel migrants.

Ms Braverman is reportedly considering plans to house asylum seekers in hotels, holiday camps and other resorts – alongside members of the public, rather than block-booking entire premises on behalf of applicants – after it emerged that the Manston facility is over-occupied.

The facility currently houses an estimated 4,000 people, despite having been designed for just 1,600.

The site, opened in January on a defunct airfield formerly used as a Defense Fire Training and Development Centre, was supposed to be a short-term holding facility where migrants could be hosted for 24 hours and processed by Border Force staff before being moved on to temporary accommodation.

What is the Manston asylum center?

Kent facility opened in January intended for short-term detention and processing of applicants but is already struggling with overcrowding after high number of Channel crossings

Alisha Rahaman Sarkar1 November 2022 06:32

1667283570Voices | Listening to Suella Braverman is like being sucked into a viral Facebook scam

“I made a mistake, I took responsibility, I resigned,” said Suella Braverman, standing at the despatch box of the House of Commons.

The words she chose were a direct quotation from her own resignation letter, which she sent to the now ex-prime minister less than two weeks ago.

And yet somehow, by some weird alchemy, she still is the home secretary.

Here she was, praising her own moral courage for having admitted her mistake, and doing the decent thing and resigning as home secretary, all while being the home secretary, writes Tom Peck.

Alisha Rahaman Sarkar1 November 2022 06:19

1667282599Rishi Sunak has ‘full confidence’ in Suella Braverman

Prime minister Rishi Sunak has “full confidence” in his home secretary Suella Braverman, Downing Street has said.

The statement came as Ms Braverman was embroiled in two rows, over leaks from her mobile phone and deteriorating conditions at the Manston processing center for migrants in Kent.

Challenged over reports that Ms Braverman fueled overcrowding at Manston by refusing to book hotel rooms to house migrants, the prime minister’s official spokesperson pointed to a Home Office statement describing the claim as “baseless”.

When asked if the prime minister had full confidence in his home secretary, the spokesperson told a regular Westminster media briefing: “Yes.”

Andrew Woodcock has more.

Alisha Rahaman Sarkar1 November 2022 06:03

1667281253Braverman’s office demanded article be ‘rewritten’

Home secretary Suella Braverman’s office demanded a 120-year-old magazine for solicitors remove an opinion piece because they did not like what it said.

They told the Law Society Gazette that the article “should not have been published in the form that it has”.

One added: “I’d really like it taken down and rewritten”, a Freedom of Information (FOI) release shows.

Alisha Rahaman Sarkar1 November 2022 05:40

1667280361Starmer told to focus on key pledges to win election

Labor leader Kier Starmer has been urged to ready his party for the next general election with a “laser-sharp” focus on expanding the vote base with a small number of key pledges that demonstrate the party’s priorities.

Josh Simons, who worked with the former labor leader Jeremy Corbyn, said that the party has “so much work to do” to ensure the sizeable poll lead translated to election victory.

“The phrase that I often come back to is that ‘it might be true that governments lose elections, but oppositions determine how much they lose by’,” Mr Simons told The Guardian.

He added: “We’ve won a couple of big and notable policy victories over the Conservative party over the last few years and that’s really helped situate labor in voters’ minds as a serious potential party of government.”

“But what we now need to do is turn that into a coherent narrative about the moment that we live in, the challenges that the country face, and how labor would address those.”

Alisha Rahaman Sarkar1 November 2022 05:26

1667280163Rishi Sunak warned against return to austerity with public spending cuts

Prime minister Rishi Sunak and chancellor Jeremy Hunt have “fiscal space” to avoid cuts to public spending in the next mini-Budget, an economic think tank has said.

The prime minister and Mr Hunt also have the chance to provide help with the cost of living crisis without busting the government’s tax-and-spend rules, the Institute for Public Policy Research said.

In a report released yesterday, the think tank said that cuts to spending are not inevitable, but would represent a “political choice” to return to the austerity pursued by Conservative governments in the “lost decade” of the 2010s.

Reports suggest that Mr Sunak is considering a 50/50 split between tax rises and spending cuts in the 17 November autumn statement to fill a fiscal gap estimated at £40bn.

Alisha Rahaman Sarkar1 November 2022 05:22

1667278019Home Office needs to ‘get a grip’ on Manston crisis, says watchdog

A watchdog has called on the Home Office to “get a grip” on the problems at the Manston migrant processing centre.

Chief Inspector of Prisons Charlie Taylor said the government department and its contractors must speed up the processing of migrants and make “suitable provisions” so people can be moved off the site in Kent.

His comments came as he published the findings of an inspection, carried out at the facility in July, which warned that serious challenges remained for migrants crossing the Channel and arriving in Kent

Mr. Taylor told Radio 4’s Today programme: “The Home Office and contractors need to get a grip, they need to speed up the processing of migrants, they need to make suitable provisions so people can be moved off-site as quickly as possible and housed in humane and decent conditions.”

Alisha Rahaman Sarkar1 November 2022 04:46

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