Thread by @JusticeUnions

Debating this week’s motion on @SuellaBraverman, Shadow HS @YvetteCooperMP points out “there is also a serious question about whether the Home Secretary has just made things worse by ignoring legal advice and allowing dangerous overcrowding” at the #Manston immigration camp 1/6

.@CommonsHomeAffs chair @DianaJohnsonMP asks how #Manston size hit 4,000 “in a facility that was only designed for 1,600” – @YvetteCooperMP points out @SuellaBraverman was warned of a “very high risk of successful legal challenge because of the Home Office breaking the law” 2/6

SNP Home spox @Stuart_McDonald tells MPs he “noticed a significant deterioration” in conditions at #Manston – “not because of the hard work of the staff there but because of the overcrowding” – adding that staff “have been placed in an impossible position” by @SuellaBraverman 3/6

“The result [of #Manston overcrowding] has been what @POAUnion assistant general secretary Andy Baxter described as a ‘humanitarian crisis on British soil’, with people sleeping on cardboard in tents amid outbreaks of covid, diphtheria, scabies & hepatitis” warns @RThomsonMP 4/6

Shadow Solicitor General @hammersmithandy says it appears that @SuellaBraverman “decided to allow #Manston to fill up to two or three times its capacity, to allow people to be detained there not for hours or days but for weeks – and in doing so knew she was breaking the law” 5/6

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