Suella Braverman – live: Robert Jenrick to be ‘more radical’ on illegal migration

Iran regime enforcer fires weapon amid protests at University of North Tehran Video footage shows plainclothes officers and pro-regime Basij paramilitary under the authority of the IRGC attacking protests on campuses throughout the country, mostly firing teargas or using clubs.Source: Telegram The Independent Liverpool should not be written off after bad run, Jurgen Klopp insists Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has rejected suggestions his team has reached the end of its useful lifespan and insists judgement should be reserved until the end of the season.Back-to-back defeats against the Premier League’s bottom two clubs, Nottingham Forest and Leeds, have left his side closer to the relegation zone than the top four.The current starting XI has one of the oldest average ages in the division, with the likes of Virgil van Dijk, Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino all the wrong side of 30.But Klopp insists it is too early to write off his side. The Independent Experiment shows how birds demonstrate self-control over food like humans Jays can resist temptation to get a delayed but better food reward, demonstrating self-control, according to a study.Researchers from Cambridge University found that the birds which could wait the longest, showing the greatest self-control, also scored highest on intelligence tests.The team designed an experiment inspired by the 1972 Stanford Marshmallow test – in which children were offered a choice between one marshmallow immediately, or two if they waited for a period of time.Source: PA, Cambridge University The Independent LIVE – Updated at 10:01 Immigration minister Robert Jenrick promised a ‘more radical’ approach to illegal migration, after Suella Braverman was condemned for claiming Britain faced an ‘invasion’ on the south coast.The home secretary made her alarming remarks in the Commons yesterday while under pressure due to overcrowding at the Manston asylum processing center in Kent, where disease has broke out under woeful sanitary conditions.This morning Mr Jenrick told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: ‘We need I’m afraid now need to look at some more radical options to ensure that our laws are appropriate, that economic migrants are returned swiftly, and that we deter people from coming to the UK.’The home secretary has previously suggested banning people who arrive across the channel in small boats from claiming asylum.Ms Braverman was yesterday accused of putting lives at risk with her ‘invasion’ claim, which followed the day after a firebomb attack at an asylum processing facility in Dover.Refugee charities said her remarks were ‘heinous’ and ‘dehumanising’ for refugees and migrants, adding that she also put Home Office staff and volunteers at risk. ‘More radical’ steps against illegal migration coming – JenrickConcern over Braverman’s migrant ‘invasion’ claimImmigration minister distances himself from Braverman’s ‘invasion’ claimHome secretary challenges critics to oust herTreasury ‘warns of tax rises’ Today’s front pages: Braverman ‘inflammatory’, ‘irresponsible’, ‘incompetent’ 09:54 , Liam James LBC’s Charlotte Lynch reports that a senior Home Office source said Suella Braverman refused to approve hotel rooms for migrants to be moved into from the overcrowded Manston processing facility ‘because they were in Tory areas’.The home secretary only approved three hotels last week in Labour constituencies, LBC reported that sources close to Manston claimed.Ms Braverman yesterday strongly denied claims she ignored legal advice and rejected calls by officials to procure more hotel accommodation for migrants. She said she had agreed to the use of more than 30 hotels.The claims in LBC’s report raise the question of the political motivations behind the choice of hotels.EXCL: Senior Home Office source tells me Home Sec refused to sign off on hotel bookings for migrants at Manston last week ‘because they were in Tory areas’. @LBC- Charlotte Lynch (@charlotterlynch) November 1, 2022 09:24 , Liam James Immigration minister Robert Jenrick promised a ‘more radical’ approach to illegal migration.He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: ‘We will I’m afraid now need to look at some more radical options to ensure that our laws are appropriate, that economic migrants are returned swiftly, and that we deter people from coming to the UK, because the United Kingdom cannot continue to be a magnet for economic migrants.’Mr Jenrick was speaking after Suella Braverman, head of his department as home secretary, said Britain was facing an ‘invasion on our southern coast’ due to increasing number of channel crossings.The immigration minister distanced himself from Ms Braverman’s ‘invasion’ claim but said channel crossing posed a ‘very, very significant’ challenge.Mr Jenrick did not give details of what radical measures could be taken. Ms Braverman has previously suggested banning people who arrive across the channel in small boats from claiming asylum. 08:45 , Liam James This chart shows the cumulative successful crossings of the Channel by people in small boats over the last three years.Home secretary Suella Braverman has been heavily criticised for referring to the rising number of crossings as an invasion. © Provided by The Independent (PA) 08:32 , Liam James The immigration minister has declined to repeat Suella Braverman’s claim of an ‘invasion’ of asylum seekers across the Channel, after fierce criticism of her inflammatory language (Rob Merrick writes).The scandal-hit home secretary has been accused of putting lives at risk with the rhetoric of the far-right – immediately echoed by Nigel Farage – one day after the firebombing of a refugee centre in DoverRobert Jenrick was asked if he would use the word ‘invasion’, but replied: ‘In a job like mine, you have to choose your words very carefully’I would never demonise people coming to this country in pursuit of a better life and I understand and appreciate our obligation to refugees.’Asked if Ms Braverman was ‘wrong’ to use the word, Mr Jenrick told Sky News: ‘I think invasion is a way of describing the sheer scale of the challenge and that is what Suella Braverman was trying to express.’ © Provided by The Independent Immigration minister declines to repeat Braverman’s asylum seeker ‘invasion’ claim 08:10 , Liam James 07:50 , Liam James BP has revealed that profits more than doubled over the past quarter (Zoe Tidman writes).The London-listed oil giant reported that underlying replacement cost profits – a measure preferred by BP – surged to $8.2 bn (£7.1 bn), compared with $3.3bn (£2.9bn) a year earlier.It was significantly ahead of the $6.1bn (£5.3bn) expected by market analysts.The report comes amid calls for a higher windfall tax on the profits of oil and gas giants. © Provided by The Independent BP profits double due to soaring oil and gas prices 07:26 , Liam James Suella Braverman has been accused of putting lives at risk after claiming the south coast was facing an ‘invasion’ by migrants, the day after a firebomb attack in Dover (Kate Devlin writes).Refugee charities described the embattled home secretary’s comments as ‘heinous’ and ‘dehumanising’, while Labour accused her of ‘highly irresponsible’ language that did not take public safety seriously.The row erupted as prime minister Rishi Sunak came under growing pressure over his decision to reappoint Ms Braverman to the role last week, just days after she resigned for breaking the ministerial code. © Provided by The Independent Braverman ‘putting lives at risk’ with migrant ‘invasion’ rhetoric after firebomb 06:48 , Alisha Rahaman Sarkar The Treasury has reportedly warned of ‘inevitable’ tax rises as prime minister Rishi Sunak moves to fill a ‘black hole’ of up to £50bn in public finances.Mr Sunak and chancellor Jeremy Hunt yesterday agreed to freeze the thresholds at which people start to pay the different rates of income tax and national insurance, according to The Daily Telegraph.Mr Hunt is looking to fill the shortfall through a combination of 50 per cent tax rises and 50 per cent public spending cuts in his Autumn Statement of November 17, the paper said.The Treasury said that ‘everybody would need to contribute more in tax in the years ahead’, without providing further details.’It is going to be rough,’ a Treasury source told the BBC.’The truth is that everybody will need to contribute more in tax if we are to maintain public services.’Given the scale of borrowing for energy bills support and the Covid-19 pandemic, the source said the department ‘won’t be able to fill the fiscal black hole through spending cuts alone’. 06:32 , Alisha Rahaman Sarkar Home secretary Suella Braverman is under mounting pressure to relieve ‘catastrophic overcrowding’ at Britain’s main asylum processing centre for Channel migrants.Ms Braverman is reportedly considering plans to house asylum seekers in hotels, holiday camps and other resorts – alongside members of the public, rather than block-booking entire premises on behalf of applicants – after it emerged that the Manston facility is over-occupied.The facility currently houses an estimated 4,000 people, despite having been designed for just 1,600.The site, opened in January on a defunct airfield formerly used as a Defence Fire Training and Development Centre, was supposed to be a short-term holding facility where migrants could be hosted for 24 hours and processed by Border Force staff before being moved on to temporary accommodation.Joe Sommerlad has more. © Provided by The Independent What is the Manston asylum centre? 06:19 , Alisha Rahaman Sarkar ‘I made a mistake, I took responsibility, I resigned,’ said Suella Braverman, standing at the despatch box of the House of Commons. The words she chose were a direct quotation from her own resignation letter, which she sent to the now ex-prime minister less than two weeks ago.And yet somehow, by some weird alchemy, she still is the home secretary.Here she was, praising her own moral courage for having admitted her mistake, and doing the decent thing and resigning as home secretary, all while being the home secretary, writes Tom Peck. © Provided by The Independent Opinion: Listening to Braverman is like being sucked into a viral Facebook scam 06:03 , Alisha Rahaman Sarkar Prime minister Rishi Sunak has ‘full confidence’ in his home secretary Suella Braverman, Downing Street has said.The statement came as Ms Braverman was embroiled in two rows, over leaks from her mobile phone and deteriorating conditions at the Manston processing centre for migrants in Kent.Challenged over reports that Ms Braverman fuelled overcrowding at Manston by refusing to book hotel rooms to house migrants, the prime minister’s official spokesperson pointed to a Home Office statement describing the claim as ‘baseless’.When asked if the prime minister had full confidence in his home secretary, the spokesperson told a regular Westminster media briefing: ‘Yes.’Andrew Woodcock has more. © Provided by The Independent Rishi Sunak has ‘full confidence’ in beleaguered home secretary Suella Braverman 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 Bancrof