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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor

Braverman to ask world leaders to make refugee rules ‘fit for the modern age’

Suella Braverman arriving in Downing Street.
Suella Braverman will be speaking to the American Enterprise Institute in the US capital. Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images

Suella Braverman will appeal on Tuesday to world leaders and political thinkers to consider rewriting key refugee rules so they are “fit for the modern age”.

In a move to alter an agreement that undermined UK plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, the home secretary will argue that the United Nations 1951 refugee convention must be reformed to tackle a worldwide migration crisis.

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