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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Kevin Rawlinson

Tory MP blames Braverman’s ‘car crash’ decision for asylum seeker centre crisis

A bus arrives at the Manston immigration short-term holding facility located in Thanet, Kent.
A bus arrives at the Manston immigration short-term holding facility located in Thanet, Kent. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

Suella Braverman has been accused by a Conservative MP of deliberately causing the overcrowding of a migrant processing centre amid growing questions around her strategy for dealing with people crossing the Channel in small boats.

Sir Roger Gale, whose constituency includes Manston processing centre, said it has been turned into a “refugee camp” by a “car crash” policy decision by the home secretary to suspend a search for hotel accommodation for new arrivals.

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