The UK government has struggled to contain small boat crossings from mainland Europe since Brexit.
Interior minister Suella Braverman previously criticised the European Convention on Human Rights for blocking the UK government’s Rwanda scheme. (AP pic
Braverman is set to call the UN convention “an incredible achievement of its age”, according to extracts released to the British media. Western countries will not be able to sustain an asylum system “if in effect simply being gay, or a woman, and fearful of discrimination in your country of origin is sufficient to qualify for protection”, she was to add.The UK government is currently languishing in the polls and has been struggling to stem the flow of small boat crossings from mainland Europe since Brexit.
Braverman, a lawyer who has criticised the European Convention on Human Rights for blocking the Rwanda scheme, will say that a system where “people are able to travel through multiple safe countries…while they pick their preferred destination to claim asylum, is absurd and unsustainable”.