Braverman pushes botched Rwanda scheme while queues pile up in Dover

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Responding to Suella Braverman discussing her Rwanda plans and the border queues in Dover, Liberal Democrat Home Affairs Spokesperson Alistair Carmichael MP said:

"Suella Braverman’s admission that her botched Rwanda scheme is on hold shows just how unworkable it is.

"The Home Office continues to push expensive, ineffective schemes that will do nothing to tackle the cause of small boat crossings, or address the asylum backlog created by years of Conservative incompetence. 

"All these vanity projects do is distract from this Conservative Government’s shambolic mismanagement of our borders, as we are currently witnessing in Dover. 

"Despite these huge queues to cross over to Europe becoming all too commonplace, Suella Braverman is so wildly out of touch she cannot even own up to the problem."

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