Suella Braverman condemned for suggesting 100 million migrants could come to UK

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. They are coming here.” The Refugee Council said Ms Braverman’s language was “unhelpful” – pointing out that it was wrong to suggest that there were 100 asylum seekers around the world. Devoid of reality and utterly reprehensible.” Caitlin Boswell of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants said she was “horrified” to hear “such inflammatory, scaremongering rhetoric” from Ms Braverman, adding: “Aside from stoking fear and hate, her comments are also complete codswallop.” Former Labour chancellor John McDonnell told Ms Braverman that her “inflammatory” rhetoric on the topic was putting people in danger, amid violent protests outside asylum seekers’ accommodation in the UK. “It’s putting these people at risk and those who represent them.” Braverman accuses Labour’s Yvette Cooper of ‘hysteria’ over migration criticism Ms Braverman finally announced that legislation would be introduced to remove asylum seekers and ban them from re-entry if they arrive in the UK through unauthorised means. Ms Cooper accused the government of “groundhog day” pledges that “didn’t work” in last year’s Nationality and Borders Act, adding: “They still don’t have any return agreements in place … this bill isn’t a solution, it’s a con that risks making the situation worse.” Ms Braverman admitted that new laws aiming to prevent small boat migrants from claiming asylum in the UK may break the Human Rights Act by failing to comply the European Convention on Human Rights.