During a speech in the US the Home Secretary said millions of asylum seekers were being incentivised to 'try their luck'
The asylum system poses an existential threat to the West if it is not reformed, the Home Secretary has said. In a speech in the US Suella Braverman, claimed millions of asylum seekers were being incentivised to 'try their luck'
READ MORE: Woman who died after plunging into river during cold water therapy 'suffered cardiac arrest' In pre-briefed comments that were seized upon by critics, she said offering asylum to a person because they are gay, a woman or fearing discrimination in their home country is not sustainable. Mrs Braverman, addressing the American Enterprise Institute, a centre-right think tank, said a worldwide poll by US analytics company Gallup found that 4% of adults who wanted to permanently leave their homeland – approximately 40 million people – had named Britain as their preferred destination.
The decision to rally against multilateral treaties comes against a backdrop of domestic struggles to control irregular migration. The Cabinet minister is tasked with helping to deliver the Prime Minister’s pledge of stopping the boats from crossing the Channel — one of five commitments that Rishi Sunak hopes to deliver ahead of a likely election next year.
Taking aim at advocates of multiculturalism, the Home Secretary said she supported immigration, having been the child of immigrants herself, but claimed that uncontrolled migration risked a threat to nationhood and national security due to a lack of integration. She said migration had been 'too much, too quick' to the UK in the past 25 years, with 'too little thought given to integration and the impact on social cohesion'.
The Home Secretary said the UK’s Rwanda policy should be 'recognised as appropriate' and said it was 'right' for countries to act bilaterally rather than wait for international reforms to be agreed. The right-wing politician has previously taken aim at the European Convention on Human Rights , signed in 1950, claiming it restricted the Government’s efforts to introduce policies such as the Rwanda scheme.
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