The government is facing renewed calls to tackle the UK’s migrant crisis following reports this week of severe overcrowding at an asylum processing centre in Kent.
After being accused of acting unlawfully by allowing the dangerous overcrowding, embattled Home Secretary Suella Braverman vowed to fix the UK’s “broken” asylum system.
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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak also insisted that he and his ministers were “going to fix” the system, during Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday. But how the government plans to do so remains to be seen.
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