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Evening Standard
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Flora Thompson

Embattled Suella Braverman takes Chinook to visit migrant facilities in bid to grip crisis

The Home Secretary is touring immigration centres in Kent as she battles to get a grip on the chaos in the asylum system amid international criticism over her claim the UK faced an “invasion” of migrants.

Suella Braverman, who took the trip from Dover in a Chinook military helicopter, met Border Force teams on Thursday to discuss Channel crossings operations and then went to the Manston processing centre to speak to staff and receive an update on the overcrowding crisis.

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