Pressure is mounting on home secretary Suella Braverman over chaotic scenes and poor conditions at a migrant centre in Kent, just days after she was reappointed to the Cabinet. New prime minister Rishi Sunak came under fire for giving Ms Braverman her old job back last week after she resigned days earlier over a breach of the ministerial code.
Now, the embattled home secretary is facing questions around severe overcrowding and ill health at the Manston refugee holding facility, which one Tory MP described as a "breach of humane conditions". It comes after hundreds of migrants were moved into the facility for safety reasons following a petrol bomb being let off at a processing site in Dover, where thousands of migrants arrive each month after treacherous Channel crossings.
The Manston site is a short-term holding facility, which opened in January as a centre where security and identity checks are carried out on migrants after they arrive in the UK at Dover. Detainees are only meant to be held there for a maximum of 24 hours before they are moved onto longer-term accommodation, such as hotels.
