With the arrival of Liz Truss at the head of the United Kingdom, towards an even tougher policy towards Calais migrants who have crossed the Channel?
The new British Prime Minister has appointed her cabinet. Suella Braverman has been appointed Home Secretary. She could adopt an even harder line than her precedent and hopes to succeed in sending the first illegal migrants who arrived from Calais to Rwanda.
She became the new British Prime Minister on Tuesday after an internal vote in the Conservative Party, and appointed in the wake of her government. The very liberal Liz Trusswho promised his constituents to govern “like a curator”announced that it would continue the migration policy initiated by Boris Johnson to reduce the number of arrivals of migrants through the Channel from the coasts of Nord and Pas-de-Calais.
Among the new faces of the cabinet, a new Secretary of State for the Interior, the equivalent of our Minister of the Interior. Son’s name: Suella Braverman. A 42-year-old former lawyer of Indian origin through her parents, she entered the House of Commons in 2015 after being elected in Hampshire.
In 2018, she expressed her first ministerial post in the cabinet of Theresa May, in charge of Brexit. In 2020, Boris Johnson propels her Attorney General. Before being appointed to the Home Office, she had held the little publicized post of legal adviser to the government for a year.
In its editorial dated Tuesday, September 6, the Guardian warns : the newly appointed British Home Secretary is expected to take an even tougher line on migration than her predecessor.
Priti Patel, behind the controversial deal with Rwanda for the country to welcome migrants of various nationalities to the UK illegally, has tendered her resignation following Liz Truss’ victory in the race to Downing Street.
Remember, his relations with his French counterpart Gérald Darmanin were execrable graduates by the press.
Critics have questioned whether Braverman might suffer remorse about sending Afghans and Iranians to Rwanda given that they, like his father, say they are fleeing political unrest. His earlier comments that no.
Rajeev SyalExtract from the editorial of the Guardian
There is no doubt that the new government should continue the work started by Johnson and his government in the field of the fight against illegal immigration. Indeed, the new Prime Minister is a fierce supporter of the “deal” reached with Rwanda last April (the United Kingdom has undertaken to pay more than 140 million euros to the African country in exchange for hosting migrants who entered the island illegally).
During summer, Liz Truss had even been accused of delaying the publication of a report on human rights so as not to jeopardize the agreement signed a few months earlier with the East African country.
Suella Braverman assured her: implementing this agreement is undoubtedly at the top of the pile of files on the desk of the new British Secretary of State for the Interior.
A time candidate for the post of Prime Minister, she had insisted on the fact that a culture war is raging in the United Kingdom and that her country must expressly leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). It is by relying on the ECHR that the European Court of Human Rights relied on blocking in extremis the plane specially chartered to take the first migrants to Rwanda.
Leaving this convention will not, however, stop the anger that rumbles in the country around this measure to the highest peaks: Prince Charles had come out of his reserve to say “appalled“ by this measure. Since this Monday, September 5e, the High Court in London is again examining the appeal of associations which oppose these evictions. A new judicial episode of a standoff occurred the day after the signing of the agreement with Kigali last April.
Meanwhile, crossings continue at an unparalleled pace. From the coasts of Nord and Pas-de-Calais, hundreds of migrants take every risk every day to reach England. In 2021 alone, 28,000 exiles had crossed the Channel. And 2022 could break this sad record. While at least 27,000 people have reached English shores by sea since 1uh January, a recent British parliamentary report estimates that the total could reach 60,000 at the end of the year.