Home Secretary lies about migrant backlog and refuses to correct herself
Suella Braverman: we don’t have an image showing her expression when she was challenged to correct the record but you can bet it was close to this.
This is yet another shocking display of contempt for Parliament by Suella Braverman.
The Home Secretary gave a statement to MPs yesterday (June 5, 2023) on the number of people awaiting an initial decision on whether they would be granted asylum in the UK – and it was inaccurate, according to the official figures.
Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper pointed this out in a point of order but the Deputy Speaker, Eleanor Laing, did not demand a correction, as you can see below:
#SuellaBraverman brazenly lied at the Dispatch Box in the House of Commons (again), but refused to correct the record.
Dep. Speaker cared more about how the liar was called out than that she had lied.
When we get these #LyingTories out, we need a new code of conduct for MPs. https://t.co/N8P7Jqr5b0 pic.twitter.com/egYEYvKkrg
— 💙@KTParker 🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇸🇺🇦🌻 (@lunaperla) June 6, 2023
The figures show that the total number of cases has indeed increased, as Cooper said:
Here’s the table showing total backlog of asylum decisions awaiting an initial decision up from Dec 2022 when pledge was made. It does show “legacy backlog” down – which is cases lodged before June 2022. But newer cases is sharply up so the total is up too. https://t.co/bAnO4NLVHo pic.twitter.com/HauV8iGd41
— Krishnan Guru-Murthy (@krishgm) June 5, 2023
This Writer can’t actually see the numbers that either politician mentioned in the figures provided; the total number of people waiting for a decision seems to have been more or less static for months.
But that’s not a fall, so Braverman should have corrected the record either way.
Not only has she not done so, but she has actively refused.
That’s contempt of Parliament, as far as I can tell. It is a serious breach of the Ministerial Code and she should be brought to book for it.
But will that happen?
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Who are the real liars and scroungers? Not impoverished women, children and men who are constantly told they are ‘liars and scroungers’ by the arrogant fascist tories. No the real liars and criminals are Suella Braverman and her cronies Rushi Sunak and all his fascist tory bros!
Why isn’t she beìng arrested for hate speech, and incitement to racial violence….? If we spouted bullshit like that, we would be prosecuted!