Britain’s Interior Minister Suella Braverman has defended her policy to remove almost all migrants who arrive without permission, saying her political opponents were “naive do-gooders” and there had been “too much” immigration in recent years.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said that stopping asylum seekers from arriving on the south coast of England in small vessels – often unseaworthy inflatable boats and dinghies – is one of his top priorities.
Braverman, whose parents migrated to Britain in the 1960s from Kenya and Mauritius, said she had been the subject of “grotesque slurs” and would not be patronised over what appropriate views someone of her background could hold. The legislation has been condemned by refugee groups and the United Nations, and the government concedes it may breach international law.As members of parliament debated the new law in the House of Parliament on Monday, hundreds of people gathered outside to protest it.Under the proposals, only in limited circumstances, such as people who were considered too ill to fly or those at a “real risk of serious and irreversible harm”, would people be allowed to claim asylum.
“The vast majority were not pregnant women, the vast majority were not young women. All travelled through safe countries like France, in which they could and should have first claimed asylum.”
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