Suella Braverman Home Secretary stated that she could not pretend that politicians have done a great job of managing immigration for the last 30 years.
LONDON
According to the country’s home secretary The United Kingdom is facing a “hurricane” of mass migration.
Suella Braverman told the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester that “The wind of change that carried my own parents across the globe in the 20th century was a mere gust compared to the hurricane that is coming.”
Noting that everyone had the right to aspire to a better life, she, said however, that nobody can “deny there are far, far more people” who would like to move to the United Kingdom than it is possible for the country to accommodate.
The Home Secretary stated that the country had been generous in taking in refugees from Afghanistan, from Ukraine, from Syria, from Hong Kong. She said that the British people had been clear, that immigration was “already too high.”
She said that they knew another thing : that the future could bring millions more migrants to the shores, uncontrolled and unmanageable unless the government they elect next year acted decisively to stop that happening, added Braverman.
The Home Secretary added that politicians were “too slow” to recognize the dimension of the issue and “unwilling” to accept that the legal framework needed to be updated.
Braverman said that she could not pretend that politicians had done a great job of managing immigration for the last 30 years. She added that they were “too squeamish” to be accused of being “racist.”
She also mentioned that small boat crossings to the UK are down by 20% compared to last year.
According to official data, a record 45,756 migrants crossed the Channel to the United Kingdom in 2022.
