Suella Braverman – live: Home secretary challenges critics to try to ‘get rid’ of her

LIVE – Updated at 05:41 Home secretary Suella Braverman challenged her critics to “get rid” of her after she rejected calls to resign over her response to the migrant crisis.Ms Braverman yesterday defended at the House of Commons overcrowding at a Kent asylum facility and denied ignoring legal advice to procure more lodging amid warnings the temporary holding centre was dangerously overcrowded.Responding to questions from shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper, the home secretary suggested that the Labour party was not ‘serious’ about stopping illegal migration.She said: ‘We need to be straight with the public. ‘The system is broken. Illegal migration is out of control and too many people are interested in playing political parlour games, covering up the truth than solving the problem.”Ms Braverman added that her policies were designed to repel an “invasion” on the southern coast.The home secretary in a letter to lawmakers apologised for a series of ‘errors of judgment’ in which she used her personal email to send official government documents. While Ms Braverman insisted there was no risk to national security, she was forced to admit she had sent official documents to her personal email address on six separate occasions. Concerns over Braverman’s migrant ‘invasion’ claimSuella Braverman challenges critics to oust herHome secretary admits to using personal email for official documents 05:40 , Alisha Rahaman Sarkar Home secretary Suella Braverman’s office demanded a 120-year-old magazine for solicitors remove an opinion piece because they did not like what it said.They told the Law Society Gazette that the article ‘should not have been published in the form that it has’.One added: ‘I’d really like it taken down and rewritten’, a Freedom of Information (FOI) release shows.Kate Devlin reports. © Provided by The Independent Revealed: Braverman’s office demanded article ‘rewrite’ while pledging free speech 05:26 , Alisha Rahaman Sarkar Labour leader Kier Starmer has been urged to ready his party for the next general election with a ‘laser-sharp’ focus on expanding the vote base with a small number of key pledges that demonstrate the party’s priorities.Josh Simons, who worked with the former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, said that the party has ‘so much work to do’ to ensure the sizeable poll lead translated to election victory. ‘The phrase that I often come back to is that ‘it might be true that governments lose elections, but oppositions determine how much they lose by’,’ Mr Simons told The Guardian.He added: ‘We’ve won a couple of big and notable policy victories over the Conservative party over the last few years and that’s really helped situate Labour in voters’ minds as a serious potential party of government.”But what we now need to do is turn that into a coherent narrative about the moment that we live in, the challenges that the country face, and how Labour would address those.’ 05:22 , Alisha Rahaman Sarkar Prime minister Rishi Sunak and chancellor Jeremy Hunt have ‘fiscal space’ to avoid cuts to public spending in the next mini-Budget, an economic think tank has said.The prime minister and Mr Hunt also have the chance to provide help with the cost of living crisis without busting the government’s tax-and-spend rules, the Institute for Public Policy Research said.In a report released yesterday, the think tank said that cuts to spending are not inevitable, but would represent a ‘political choice’ to return to the austerity pursued by Conservative governments in the ‘lost decade’ of the 2010s.Reports suggest that Mr Sunak is considering a 50/50 split between tax rises and spending cuts in the 17 November autumn statement to fill a fiscal gap estimated at £40bn. 04:46 , Alisha Rahaman Sarkar A watchdog has called on the Home Office to ‘get a grip’ on the problems at the Manston migrant processing centre.Chief Inspector of Prisons Charlie Taylor said the government department and its contractors must speed up the processing of migrants and make ‘suitable provisions’ so people can be moved off the site in Kent.His comments came as he published the findings of an inspection, carried out at the facility in July, which warned that serious challenges remained for migrants crossing the Channel and arriving in Kent.Mr Taylor told Radio 4’s Today programme: ‘The Home Office and contractors need to get a grip, they need to speed up the processing of migrants, they need to make suitable provisions so people can be moved off-site as quickly as possible and housed in humane and decent conditions.’Holly Bancroft has more. © Provided by The Independent Home Office told to ‘get a grip’ on issues at Manston immigration centre by watchdog 04:34 , Alisha Rahaman Sarkar Home secretary Suella Braverman yesterday admitted sending official documents to her personal email address on six different occasions during her short time in the post.Ms Braverman claimed that the documents she emailed ‘did not pose any risk to national security’ and were not secret or top secret.A Home Office review identified the incidents after she was forced to resign for breaching the ministerial code by sending a draft government statement to an ally from her personal account.Jon Stone has the details. © Provided by The Independent Suella Braverman admits using personal email for official documents six times 04:33 , Alisha Rahaman Sarkar Priti Patel is blaming her successor Suella Braverman for the failure to prevent the Kent asylum centre crisis.The Home Office has been accused by a Tory MP of a ‘deliberate’ decision to allow dangerous overcrowding at the Manston site, possibly to send a harsh message to would-be refugees.Now, Ms Patel has made known she did book hotel rooms for asylum seekers while in charge of the Home Office – raising the question of why the practice stopped when Ms Braverman took over last month.’There was never any overcrowding when she was there. What would happen was, if it got to the point where people were getting worried about conditions, we would sign off on more hotels,’ a source close to Ms Patel said.Rob Merrick reports. © Provided by The Independent Priti Patel blames Braverman for failure to prevent Kent asylum crisis 04:17 , Alisha Rahaman Sarkar Home secretary Suella Braverman challenged her critics to try to ‘get rid’ of her after she rejected calls for resignation over the dire conditions of migrants at a processing centre.She strongly denied claims she ignored legal advice and rejected calls by officials to procure more hotel accommodation for migrants amid mounting concern about the situation at Manston.Ms Braverman said she will be visiting the facility ‘shortly’ and will continue to ‘personally’ oversee efforts to resolve the problems there.Last week, the chief inspector of borders and immigration David Neal told MPs the conditions he found at the centre left him ‘speechless’. 04:15 , Alisha Rahaman Sarkar Senior Tories have warned that home secretary Suella Braverman’s remarks on the migrant crisis could fuel support for far-right extremists.Ms Braverman yesterday said that ‘illegal migration is out of control and too many people are interested in playing political parlour games, covering up the truth than solving the problem’.She added that she is serious about ‘stopping the invasion’ on the southern coast.Senior Conservative MP Sir Roger Gale said he fears that her inflammatory language could have dangerous implications. ‘People need to use their language carefully because extremists latch on to those words,’ Sir Roger told The Times.A Tory lawmaker was quoted by the daily saying that Grant Shapps, who replaced Ms Braverman for less than a week, ‘did more in his brief tenure as home secretary than Suella has achieved in several weeks’ 03:39 , Alisha Rahaman Sarkar Welcome to The Independent’s live coverage of everything related to politics in the UK. 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