Suella Braverman admitted on Wednesday that 80,000 people could cross the Channel in small boats this year despite a flagship new crackdown which the United Nations refugee agency has branded a “clear breach” of the 1951 Refugee Convention.
The Home Secretary argued that the Illegal Immigration Bill is lawful despite such deep doubts by Government lawyers that it was written on the face of the bill that it may not be compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights.
