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Suella Braverman’s speech is an insult to the refugees we’ve reported on

The home secretary thinks the refugee system is too generous. She should tell that to the refugees the UK has shut out

Suella Braverman’s speech is an insult to the refugees we’ve reported on
Braverman claimed that international refugee laws are "outdated" and "absurd". | American Enterprise Institute
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“Are we delivering safe and legal routes in an efficient and effective manner?”

This is what Suella Braverman has been asking other European countries, she said today, during a speech that accused the international refugee system of being too generous.

Addressing an exclusive audience at the American Enterprise Institute, a shadowy libertarian think tank in Washington, DC, the UK home secretary said there had been “an interpretative shift” lowering the bar for the award of refugee status. It was time, she said, for an international debate on reform of asylum laws.