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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Adam Forrest

Suella Braverman’s decisions ‘led to scabies and diphtheria at overcrowded asylum centre’

PA Wire

Home secretary Suella Braverman’s decisions to block transfers led to overcrowding and outbreaks of scabies and diphtheria at a holding facility for asylum seekers, according to a report.

She is said to have been warned by officials that she risked breaking the law by keeping migrants at a processing centre near Manston airport in Kent for several weeks when it was only intended to hold people for 24 hours.

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