The home secretary came under fire from her own colleagues, who criticized her for “talking tough” on the immigration crisis but not acting on it. MPs also criticized her admission that illegal immigration is “out of control”, saying it would cost the Conservative party seats in the Red Wall areas at the next election. On Monday, Ms Braverman rejected allegations in the Commons that she had ignored legal advice or blocked plans to use hotels to deal with chronic overcrowding at the Channel’s main asylum processing center for migrants at the disused Manston Airport in Kent. He insisted it was “virtually impossible” to house all the migrants, adding that the government needed to be “straight with the public. The system is broken. Illegal immigration is out of control.”
“If you talk tough and don’t act, people feel betrayed”
A former minister told The Telegraph: “If it’s out of control, it’s been out of control over the last few years. If you look back – it was hard work, but we were reducing illegal immigration, we were getting the asylum backlog down, we were stopping people going through the back door part of the trucks. “Honestly, the problem for Zuela is that she tries to do it with rhetoric and it sounds harsh. It’s much better to speak quietly, to calm the conversation, but actually make some pretty drastic decisions. “What we’re getting right now is words, not action. You can talk as tough as you want, but if you don’t act tough, it doesn’t make anything better, it makes it worse – if you talk tough and don’t act, people feel betrayed.” The MP said the way to get illegal immigration under control is to implement “quite boring” administrative changes that improve the Home Office’s internal systems and processes. “If you can make the asylum system work better so that people don’t have to wait eight months for a decision, you’re removing a lot more people, you’re getting decisions faster – that might involve changing resources within the Home Office,” they said. . . “It’s pretty boring stuff that doesn’t grab the headlines, but over time they improve the immigration system. I haven’t seen any signs yet that they’re ready to do boring stuff that doesn’t make headlines.”
