Wednesday 2 November 2022 12:31 PM Rishi Sunak says under-pressure Home Secretary Suella Braverman is 'getting on ... trends now
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Rishi Sunak again defended under-pressure Suella Braverman today as he came under pressure to take more action to ease the Channel migrant crisis.
Mr Sunak faced Labour calls to sack the Home Secretary in a fiery Prime Minister's Questions session today.
And he was forced to admit that 'not enough' cases were being processed, amid a massive backlog of people at holding centres in Kent.
Taxpayers are currently paying nearly £7million a day to house tens of thousands of asylum seekers in hotels after the Home Office managed to process just four per cent of asylum claims from people who crossed the Channel last year.
As Labour targeted the Government over the situation on the south coast, party leader Sir Keir Starmer questioned how a broken asylum system could be anyone's fault but the Tories.
And senior opposition backbencher Meg Hillier asked the PM: 'His Home Secretary has leaked information, is overseeing chaos in the Home Office and has broken the law. What will she actually have to do to get the sack?'
With Mrs Braverman sitting close to him, Mr Sunak replied: 'The Home Secretary made an error of judgment but she recognised her mistake and took accountability for her actions.'
He said Ms Braverman has set out 'transparently,
