The government has been forced to defend embattled home secretary Suella Braverman over accusations that she used far-Right rhetoric to describe asylum seekers in Parliament last night.
Braverman referred to migrants arriving in the UK after crossing the English Channel in small boats as an “invasion”, leading to criticism from charities and MPs.
In so doing, she echoed official literature from the British Nationalist Party (BNP)’s 2010 election campaign. The far-Right party said at the time it was “proud to campaign on a number of issues that set it apart from all the other parties”, including what it described as the “immigration invasion of our country”.
