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Braverman promises new legislation to stop people crossing Channel in small boats claiming asylum
Suella Braverman, the home secretary, received two standing ovations during her speech – one when she said “not give up” on tackling the small boats crossing the Channel, and another as she wound up. Hardline speeches from home secretaries always go down well at Tory conference, and this was one was in that tradition. Here are the key points.
Braverman said she would legislate to stop anyone crossing the Channel on a small boat claim asylum. She said:
I will commit to you that I will look to bring forward legislation make it clear that the only route to the United Kingdom is through a safe and legal route. And that is so that we can support those who need that help the most, including women and girls.
This is something her predecessor, Priti Patel, said she would achieve through the Nationality and Borders Act.
But she also stressed that there were no easy solutions to the problems of migrants crossing the Channel. She said:
We’ve all heard pledges and promises, but this problem is complex and entrenched, and there are many forces working against us.
Among her opponents on this issue, she cited the Labour party, the Liberal Democrats, the Guardian and lawyers. “The Guardian will have a meltdown,” she promised.
She said the UK should not be relying on migrant labour. She said:
And we mustn’t forget how to do things for ourselves. There is absolutely no reason why we can’t train up enough of our own HGV drivers, or butchers, or fruit pickers. The way we build a high skilled, high wage economy is by encouraging business to invest in capital and domestic labour, not relying wholly on low skilled, foreign workers.
This seems to contradict what Liz Truss told the Sunday Telegraph at the weekend about how she wanted to increase the number of seasonal agricultural workers coming to the UK.
Braverman claimed modern slavery laws, introduced by Theresa May when she was home secretary, were being abused. Braverman said:
But the hard truth is that our modern slavery laws are being abused by people gaming the system. We have seen a 450% increase in modern slavery claims since 2014. Today, the largest group of small boats migrants are from Albania, a safe country. Many of them claim to be trafficked as modern slaves. That’s despite them having paid thousands of pounds to come here or having willingly taken a dangerous journey on the Channel. The truth is many of them are not modern slaves and their claims of being trafficked are lies.
We need to make sure our system strikes a right balance. Our laws need to be resilient against abuse whilst at the same time ensuring we help those in genuine need.
Robert Halfon, the Conservative chair of the Commons education committee, told Radio 4’s PM programme that benefits should be uprated in line with inflation because the Tories should care about growing society, as well as growing the economy. He saidThere’s no other way to say that things have been grim, grim at conference, and grim over the past week.
The prime minister keeps talking about growing the economy, but we have got to talk about growing society as well and being the party of human and social capital, and not just the party of economic ... because both go hand in hand.
What does that mean? That means a relentless focus on the cost of living and helping the lower-paid and absolutely raising benefits in line with inflation as Boris Johnson pledged.
It means looking at how we’re going to ensure more affordable housing, how we’re championing education and skills, and at the moment we seem to be doing none of those things because the government seem bogged down in this argument amongst, in essence, people in the cabinet about the tax cuts for the well-off.
The German ambassador to the UK has said that if the UK implemented laws arising out of the Northern Ireland protocol bill it would be “the end” of talks to find a solution to the Brexit impasse over trade arrangements between GB and NI.
Miguel Berger told a Centre for European Reform panel at the conference:We need to find a solution without the application of the protocol bill, because I think if this would be implemented, in my view at the end of the talks.
But he said he was hopeful that talks, which have resumed, would deliver a solution and allow everyone “to move forward”.
Lord Frost becomes latest Tory to call for benefits to be uprated in line with inflation
Many of the Tories publicly calling for benefits to be uprated in line with inflation are on the one nation, leftish wing of the party. But rightwingers are making this case too, and this afternoon Lord Frost, the former Brexit minister who on most issues is a strong supporter of the Liz Truss agenda, has joined those saying not uprating in line with inflation would be wrong. He told GB News:I’m going to say something which I don’t say very often, which is I agree with Penny Mordaunt (see 8.02am) and I think she’s got this right.
The government has made a commitment to uprate benefits. It shouldn’t take on battles it can’t win. People feel insecure going into the autumn and I think it should stick to this commitment.
We should, of course, for the future, look at incentives to work and probably there is going to have to be reform over time, but choose your moments and reassure people and take people with you. That’ll be my view in the following the events of the last few days.
In the conference hall Suella Braverman, the home secretary, has just started speaking. According to briefing in advance, she will announce plans for a new law to stop anyone crossing the Channel on a small boat from claiming asylum in the UK (even thought the Nationality and Borders Act, passed by Priti Patel, was supposed to achieve this).
I will post a summary once the speech is over.
Andrew Marr, the former BBC political editor, has been attending party conferences since the 1980s. If you thought our mid-afternoon upsum was harsh (see 3.34pm), you should listen to his take on LBC this morning. He says that it’s an omnishambles conference and that it feels fatal for Liz Truss.
Patel says Tories must restore their reputation as party of 'sustainable public spending'
Priti Patel, the former home secretary, delivered her first major political intervention at a fringe meeting at the party conference today. In remarks briefed overnight ahead of her speech to the Times, she criticised the decison to announce unfunded tax cuts, saying the Tories had to be the party of “sustainable public spending”. She said:We are spending today with no thought of tomorrow, and like the Blob in the old horror film, the more resources are absorbed today the bigger the problem gets and the more resources it will need to eat up tomorrow.
Right now, we have got into a pattern of borrowing huge amounts to fix today’s urgent problems or generate short-term populist headlines. Each time it seems that there’s a good case, but what does this mean for future generations?
I want to see our party regain its credibility by restoring its commitment to sustainable public spending . . . which is affordable today, tomorrow and for the foreseeable future.
As Sophia Sleigh reports at Huffpost UK, Patel also said that “nothing would be more divisive” than having another leadership contest to replace Liz Truss.
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