Is it time the world re-evaluated the rules on migration?

Home Secretary Suella Braverman questions whether 1951 UN Refugee Convention is 'fit for our modern age'

Illustration of Suella Braverman with globes, arrows and refugees on a boat
The UK's home secretary Suella Braverman will say that the UN convention has created 'huge incentives for illegal migration'
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Suella Braverman will call for a fundamental rewrite of the international rules governing refugees, questioning whether the UN's landmark 1951 Refugee Convention is "fit for our modern age".

The home secretary is giving a speech at a right-wing Washington DC think tank, the American Enterprise Institute, in which she will concede that the convention was an "incredible achievement" when it was signed after the Second World War, but that it has since created "huge incentives for illegal migration". 

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