THE Home Secretary's comments about LGBT refugees are “unforgivable”, Scotland’s equalities minister has said.
, where she called for a dismantling of international protections for refugees and claimed multiculturalism had failed.after the Home Secretary claimed that “many'' people were pretending to be gay in order to claim asylum in the UK.Roddick suggested that Braverman was playing to the hard-right of her party as part of a leadership bid rather than dealing with “facts” or “reality”.
“I mean you come to expect the kind of policies that they're coming out with, but to have so blatantly laid out there the complete lack of empathy, the willingness to throw, not just, you know, migrants, asylum seekers, under the bus. During her speech to the American Enterprise Institute on Tuesday, Braverman argued for a “narrower” definition of what a refugee is, claiming that “simply being gay or a woman and fearful of discrimination” should not qualify people for asylum.
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