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Home Secretary Suella Braverman travelled the short distance from Dover to Manston – 30 minutes in a car – by £30 million, twin-rotor support aircraft – so she could look at the Channel coastline. There weren’t any boats.
Beleaguered Home Secretary Suella Braverman donned a helmet and travelled by military troop helicopter to visit an asylum centre in Kent.
Allies say she took the minutes-long short jaunt by chopper so she could look at the coastline. But due to inclement weather, there were no boats to be seen.
They insisted she was accompanied by Channel Clandestine Threat Commander Daniel O’Mahoney.
He was appointed in 2020 when 8,404 migrants arrived in small boats over the Strait of Dover.