Thread by @docrussjackson

#THREAD

#LeakySue Braverman held secret meetings with her mentor, swivel-eyed ERG loon John Hayes, before she was forced to resign over leaking sensitive information to him.

She also looked to implement Policy Exchange's inhumane anti-refugee proposals.

theguardian.com/politics/2022/…

Braverman appears to have instructed officials to look at potentially implementing grotesque proposals cooked up by opaquely funded right-wing free-market think tank Policy Exchange, that would in effect prohibit “genuine refugees” from settling in the UK.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Before her resignation, Home Office officials were tasked by Braverman to study a 2022 Policy Exchange report about tackling Channel crossings.

The extremist Policy Exchange has lots of form - they've recently attacked the police for being 'too woke'! 🤪

https://twitter.com/docrussjackson/status/1581975052765245440?s=20&t=f2PhV-TWYYPo6Kif7wZOjg

The Policy Exchange report, Stopping the Small Boats: a “Plan B”, states: “Genuine refugees would be resettled in a safe state other than the UK,” a move that despite their claim to the contrary, appears to breach the UN 1951 refugee convention (Britain was a founding signatory).

The report also states: “People attempting to enter the UK on small boats will be deported to a location outside the UK whether the Channel Islands, sovereign bases in Cyprus or Ascension Island” where their asylum claims will be considered. Something considered by Patel in 2020.

One of the report’s authors, Simon Murray, was appointed a Home Office minister responsible for “migration & borders legislation” several weeks ago, but on Saturday, the Home Office denied that officials had been asked by Braverman to look into the Policy Exchange findings! 🤥

Enver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council, said: “The options the home secretary is considering are deeply worrying and out of step with the majority of the public who support giving refugees protection.”

“Most of those coming to the UK on small boats are fleeing the unimaginable horror of war, conflict & persecution. They must not be expelled but given a fair hearing on UK soil. Prime Ministers since Winston Churchill have committed to the refugee convention.” 🇬🇧

Senior officials say even before she was forced to quit there was already significant disquiet over Braverman’s dealings with extremist ERG crank John Hayes, the swivel-eyed far-right leader of the “anti-woke” 'Common Sense Group' of right-wing MPs.

https://twitter.com/docrussjackson/status/1548945849899794433?s=20&t=2j908b9VabJdsPFkoqLBYQ

Braverman & Hayes, friends for many years, held meetings in the Home Office’s Marsham Street HQ after she became home secretary for the first time - before she stood down after admitting leaking sensitive government information to Hayes & his wife via her personal email address.

“There’s a dynamic around her leaking stuff. Civil servants had been raising concerns about her meetings with that backbencher [Hayes]; she was having them at Marsham Street,” a Home Office source said.

Braverman has also been accused of failing to act on legal advice that the government was illegally detaining asylum seekers at a processing centre for unlawfully long periods, & not signing off on providing accommodation for them. She received this advice over three weeks ago.

Asylum seekers are meant to be held at the Manston centre facility in Kent for 24 hours while they undergo checks before being moved to immigration detention centres or asylum accommodation: about 3,000 people are being held on the site designed for 1,000 with a maximum of 1,600.

Labour want the Govt to publish its assessments of Braverman’s security breach & breaking of the Ministerial Code. Sunak has resisted demands to launch an inquiry, & cowardly incompetent Braverman has so far refused to appear before MPs to explain herself.

https://twitter.com/docrussjackson/status/1585417468679704576?s=20&t=f2PhV-TWYYPo6Kif7wZOjg