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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor

UN refugee body criticises ‘errors’ in asylum report backed by Braverman

People wearing life jackets sit in a dinghy as they cross the Channel from France to the UK
People wearing lifejackets sit in a dinghy as they cross the Channel from France to the UK. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

A report partially endorsed by the UK home secretary, Suella Braverman, calling for a radical crackdown on those seeking asylum has been criticised by a UN body for “factual and legal errors”.

Braverman wrote the foreword to the report by the right-leaning Centre for Policy Studies that says “if necessary” Britain should change human rights laws and withdraw from the European convention on human rights in order to tackle Channel crossings by small boat.

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