Suella Braverman is facing five legal challenges over a crisis at Manston processing centre but has claimed that people seeking asylum in small boats and their smugglers are to blame for the chaos.
The home secretary told MPs that legislation planned to tighten the asylum system would not come before parliament this year. Her most senior civil servant has not yet signed off a £140m deal to send asylum seekers to Rwanda as “value for money”, it emerged.
