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Home Office civil servants lodged a flood of complaints about Suella Braverman's new asylum policy yesterday, with one suggesting it breaches international law.

A slew of anonymous negative comments came during an online question and answer session for civil servants within the department.

One said they were 'embarrassed and ashamed' of measures in the Illegal Migration Bill, which set out earlier this week how all Channel migrants will be detained and disqualified from claiming asylum.

Another wrote: 'At what point are senior leadership in the Home Office willing to state that breaking international law is not consistent with the civil service code or our values and that we as staff should not be expected to do so in our work?'

A third claimed they were struggling to balance 'my own personal ethical convictions' with the Home Secretary's 'rhetoric and policies'.