Suella Braverman does not rule out GPS tagging of illegal migrants

The authorities has not ruled retired fitting physics tags connected immoderate asylum seekers arriving illegally successful the UK.

Home Secretary Suella Braverman said she was considering "all options" to "exert immoderate control" implicit migrants crossing the channel.

The Times originally reported that the Home Office was considering fitting asylum seekers with GPS tags.

It said this was portion of efforts to halt migrants who cannot beryllium housed successful detention centres from disappearing.

"We volition of people request to summation immoderate of our detention capacity," Ms Braverman told BBC Breakfast erstwhile asked astir the reports.

She added that the government's "landmark" Illegal Migration Act - a cardinal portion of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's efforts to halt tiny boats crossing the transmission - volition "empower america to detain and region amerciable migrants much swiftly".

She said: "We're considering a scope of options - each options - to guarantee that we tin exert immoderate power implicit those radical who are arriving illegally truthful that we tin thereafter region them to a harmless state similar Rwanda."