Just a few days before the Conservative Party conference, the home secretary set out how she thought the global asylum system should be changed. The address was made to a US think tank as Ms Braverman visited Washington DC.
Even so, today's language is particularly punchy.
It is criticism the home secretary is used to. Beyond the ethics, though, there is the question of whether anything she says will actually shift the dial. She also spoke about the importance of deterrents: Rwanda and the Illegal Migration Bill. The Rwanda plan has been bogged down in court, and there is no proof yet that government legislation will work. Small boat crossings are down from last year, but they are still much higher than 2021. Last month, more than 800 people crossed the Channel in a single day.
Michael Fabricant, a Tory MP and a patron of the Conservative LGBT+ group, said that"if someone simply claims to be gay in order to seek asylum, that should not lift the bar to entry to the UK".
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