Should home secretary Suella Braverman resign? Have your say

Embattled Suella Braverman’s political career is looking more and more precarious after a string of high-profile blunders.

Already under fire over the security breach that saw her sacked – and controversially later re-instated – as home secretary less than two weeks ago, she is now facing mounting pressure over overcrowding at Manston refugee centre.

And in a seeming bid to shore up her increasingly flaky political position, she then faced a fierce backlash after claiming the south coast was undergoing a migrant ‘invasion’.

The Tories were quick to distance themselves from her ‘inflammatory’ rhetoric, with even her own minister warning of ‘demonising’ arrivals.

Defending her handling of the crisis amid reports of overcrowding and disease at the Kent processing facility – which is currently housing 4,000 migrants, more than double its capacity, Ms Braverman said the UK asylum system is ‘broken’ and illegal migration is ‘out of control’.

Yet she was adamant she wasn’t to blame, and claimed she had ‘never blocked’ the use of hotels to ease pressure on the centre, or disregarded legal advice on the matter.

But multiple sources insisted she most certainly had been alerted to the conditions.

Tory MP Sir Roger Gale, the local MP, blamed Braverman for the situation. “That facility operated absolutely magnificently and very efficiently indeed until five weeks ago, when I’m afraid the home secretary took the policy decision not to commission further accommodation, and it is that that has led to the crisis at Manston,” he said.

Other Conservative MPs and Whitehall officials were concerned at the home secretary’s handling of the situation.

One minister said: “She’s just not up to the job. She’s only there because Rishi [Sunak] needed her backing to get the leadership. We can’t see her lasting.”

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