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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Lizzie Dearden

Suella Braverman creating law to seize small boat migrants’ phones – despite ongoing investigation

AP

Suella Braverman wants to create a law allowing the government to seize and search phones belonging to small boat migrants, despite the Home Office being censured for the same practice just last year.

The Home Office admitted acting unlawfully when it seized mobile phones from all migrants crossing the Channel between 2018 and 2020.

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