2 Nov 2022

UK home secretary calls asylum seekers arrival 'invasion'

From Morning Report, 7:34 am on 2 November 2022

The day after a man used firebombs to attack an immigration processing centre in the south-east of England, UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman described the arrival of asylum seekers on the United Kingdom's southern coast as an "invasion".

"Let's stop pretending they are all refugees in distress, the whole country knows that is not true," she said.

Braverman was reappointed to her post by new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak last week, six days after she resigned from the same role for breaching ministerial rules by sending a sensitive government document via her personal email.

UK correspondent Olly Barratt spoke to Corin Dann.