In full: Suella Braverman calls for reform of ‘absurd’ UN asylum rules

Suella Braverman has warned uncontrolled and illegal migration poses an “existential challenge” to the West.

Delivering a speech in Washington DC, the Home Secretary said politicians who fail to control their nation’s borders “will not maintain the consent of the people”.

She said: “I’m here in America to talk about a critical and shared global challenge: uncontrolled and illegal migration.

“It is an existential challenge for the political and cultural institutions of the West. Just as it is a basic rule of history that nations which cannot defend their borders will not long survive, it is a basic rule of politics that political systems which cannot control their borders will not maintain the consent of the people, and thus not long endure.”

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