Suella Braverman argues opponents on small boats policy are motivated by ‘phoney humanitarianism’

Making a ministerial statement to the House today on the appeals court ruling that the Rwanda scheme is unlawful, home secretary Suella Braverman said her opponents were motivated by “phoney humanitarianism”.

She said: “It’s unfair on people and our partners in the developing world that we in the West continue to maintain an asylum seeker system so open to abuse that it incentivises mass flows of economic migration into Europe, lining the pockets of people smugglers and turning our seas into graveyards all in the name of a phoney humanitarianism”.