Compelled to resign from her position under former Prime Minister Liz Truss for breaching the ministerial code of conduct, Braverrman said on Monday, October 31 that migrants have launched an “invasion on our southern coast”.
London: Indian-origin Suella Braverman, already, Home Secretary in Rishi Sunak’s cabinets, sparked off another outrage by comparing migrant crisis in the country to an “invasion”, an IANS report in The Tribune, Chandigarh, says.
Compelled to resign from her position under former Prime Minister Liz Truss for breaching the ministerial code of conduct, Braverrman said on Monday, October 31 that migrants have launched an “invasion on our southern coast”.
“Let’s stop pretending that they are all refugees in distress,” she said while responding to questions in the House of Commons amid concerns about conditions at the Manston processing site in Kent, a former military base.
The place was opened as a processing centre in February this year, for the growing number of migrants reaching the UK in small boats.
The Home Secretary was addressing MPs said some 40,000 people hade arrived on the south coast in 2022 with many of them members of criminal gangs.
The Daily Mirror quoted Pakistan Labour MP Zarah Sultana as saying “Disgusted to hear Suella Braverman say there’s an ‘invasion on our southern coast’. Language like this whips up hate and spreads division,”
“Let’s stop pretending that they are all refugees in distress,” she said while responding to questions in the House of Commons amid concerns about conditions at the Manston processing site in Kent, a former military base.
“For Suella Braverman to use language like ‘invasion’, to describe refugees. people who are themselves escaping conflict. is offensive. They know what being invaded feels like. We are lucky that most of us do not,” Clare Moseley, from refugee charity Care4Calais, told The Evening Standard.
Braverman, remarks were made only a few days days after fellow Indian-origin Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said that “compassion” would be at the heart of his administration.
Local media reports quoted Angela Rayner, deputy leader of the Labour Party, as saying that “Rishi Sunak pledged to bring integrity, professionalism and accountability as Prime Minister. Instead, he brought back Suella Braverman”
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