Suella Braverman claims asylum seekers who come on small boats are drug dealers and traffickers

Home Secretary says ‘unprecedented levels of illegal migration are totally unacceptable to our country and to our values’

Migrants who come to the UK across the English Channel in small boats “possess values which are at odds with our country” with “heightened levels of criminality,” Suella Braverman has said.

“I think that uncontrolled and unprecedented levels of illegal migration are totally unacceptable to our country and to our values,” she told LBC.

Asked whether she agreed with immigration minister Robert Jenrick’s view that uncontrolled migration “threatens to cannibalise the compassion of the British public”, the Home Secretary said: “I think that the people coming here illegally do possess values which are at odds with our country.