Suella Braverman set to visit overcrowded Manston migrant centre

Home Secretary Suella Braverman is acceptable to sojourn the Manston migrant processing centre, arsenic she comes nether expanding unit to get a grip connected overcrowding.

The media has not been fixed entree to the sojourn and Ms Braverman volition not beryllium taking questions from reporters.

She has besides been visiting a migrant installation successful Dover, which was the people of a occurrence weaponry onslaught connected Sunday.

Manston is simply a erstwhile RAF basal that was lone meant to clasp 1,600 radical but 3,500 are presently surviving there.

The authorities says it hopes to get numbers astatine the tract down to "acceptable" levels successful the adjacent 7 days.

Minister Graham Stuart said nary 1 successful authorities was "comfortable" with the situation.

But Labour and different absorption parties accidental the authorities has mislaid power of the asylum strategy and needs to "get a grip".

Downing Street said the location caput was gathering Border Force unit and subject unit to sermon operations successful the Channel astatine the Dover site.

No 10 besides confirmed she would sojourn Manston connected Thursday day wherever she would "speak with unit and person an update connected the concern connected the ground".

Defending Ms Braverman's determination not to speech to reporters during her visit, the premier minister's spokeswoman stressed that the location caput "took galore questions successful the [House of Commons] this week" and added she was "getting connected with the job".

The location caput has faced disapproval for surviving conditions astatine Manston, arsenic good arsenic for her usage of language, describing migrants crossing the Channel arsenic an "invasion".

The past twelvemonth has seen a large summation successful the fig of Albanians making the journey, and connected Wednesday the country's Prime Minister Edi Rama accused the UK of scapegoating his citizens to excuse its "failed policies" connected borders and migration.

He added helium had been "disgusted" by Ms Braverman's prime of words and said the UK erstwhile had "a large contented of integrating the minorities" but was becoming "a madhouse".

So acold successful 2022, astir 40,000 radical person transverse the Channel successful tiny boats - the highest fig since figures began to beryllium collected successful 2018.

This has been coupled with mounting delays successful the clip the Home Office is taking to woody with asylum applications, with conscionable 4% of those who arrived via tiny boats successful 2021 receiving a decision.

As a result, the numbers surviving successful Home Office-funded accommodation portion they hold for a determination has besides grown.

Council leaders successful Kent person warned that the region is "at breaking point".

In a strongly-worded missive to Ms Braverman, they said nationalist services were coming nether "extreme unit from surging section demand".

No 10 said the authorities was trying to alleviate pressures, had acceptable speech assembly assistance backing and had developed a fairer dispersal model.

Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick said the numbers astatine Manston were "falling precise rapidly" and that the authorities was "procuring hotels successful each parts of the country" for alternate accommodation.

"We expect we volition get to acceptable levels successful 7 days," helium told ITV.

Mr Jenrick has besides confirmed that the Home Office had received "initial contact" for a judicial reappraisal - a process that could pb to a justice deciding whether the authorities has acted lawfully implicit the Manston centre.

On Tuesday a radical of migrants were mistakenly taken from Manston and stranded successful cardinal London without accommodation, the BBC has been told.

Danial Abbas, from the Under One Sky homelessness charity, said the men were near "highly distressed, disorientated, lost".

The Home Office said the radical had told officials they had a spot to enactment and that erstwhile it was discovered that was not the case, they had worked "at pace" to find accommodation for them.

Labour's shadiness location caput Yvette Cooper said the concern was "appalling... wholly irresponsible and chaotic - what connected world is the location caput doing?".

Meanwhile, 4 chairs of the parliamentary committees for justice, quality rights, location affairs and women and equalities person written to Ms Braverman expressing "deep concerns" astir the conditions astatine Manston and asked her to explicate however she plans to chopped the fig of tiny boats arriving connected UK shores and trim the backlog of asylum cases.