The Chancellor said he ‘wouldn’t use her words’ as he defended allowing skilled foreign workers into the UK.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman delivers a speech on migration at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC
Her speech in the United States last week, in which she argued that being discriminated against for being gay or a woman should not grant a person refugee status in the UK, has prompted a backlash, including from her own party. “And what we’re seeing at the moment with these criminal gangs smuggling thousands of people over the Channel is not fair. It’s an abuse of the way the law works in Britain, it’s an abuse of all the public services that you get free of charge here.
On Sunday, Dame Priti suggested the remarks may have been made to “get attention” and was “no substitute for action” on preventing small boats of migrants crossing the Channel.
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