Bbc Journalist Says On Air That Uk Is Defending Itself Against Migrants

Michael Keohan, the BBC’s political correspondent for Kent, was reporting live from Manston on Thursday when he said: “This will be one of the places where the Home Secretary will come to see for herself exactly how the UK defends itself in the first anti-immigrant line”. People were quick to take issue with Mr Keohan’s choice of wording when describing the ongoing immigration crisis. Many pointed to similarities between his choice of language and that of Suella Braverman, the newly reinstated Home Secretary, when she described the Channel crossings as “an invasion of our south coast” just a day after the bombing of an immigration detention center in Dover. A BBC spokesman told the Telegraph: “The journalist acknowledges that during a live insert for BBC News his choice of language was poor.”