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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Amy Gibbons

Sunak says UK will always be compassionate after Braverman speaks of ‘invasion’

PA Wire

Rishi Sunak has told his Cabinet that the UK will always be a “compassionate, welcoming country” after the Home Secretary came under fire for claiming there is an “invasion” by migrants on England’s south coast.

The Prime Minister’s official spokesman suggested Suella Braverman was seeking to “express the sheer scale of the challenge” at hand, but would not say if No 10 would describe the situation in the same way.

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