Suella Braverman’s personal statement in the Commons

Madame Deputy speaker I'm very grateful for the opportunity to make this statement and I'd like to put on record my wishes to the to Mr Speaker and that he makes a speedy recovery yeah Madame Deputy speaker serving in cabinet for just under four years has been a true honor and I'm thankful for the opportunity and grateful to the many civil servants and ministers with whom I worked we achieved a great deal in the last 12 months Landmark legislation in the public order Act and the National Security Act 20,000 new police officers more than England Wales have ever seen before one of the largest ever pay Rises for the police greater powers to dismiss Rogue officers and a review of the legal protections to empower our brave Firearms officers but Madame Deputy speaker I want to talk about the crisis on which I spent more time working than any other Mass uncontrolled illegal immigration we are all here familiar with the problem tens of thousands of mostly young men many with values and social Ms at odds with our own pouring into our country day after day month after month year after year many come from safe countries many are not refugees but are economic migrants all have paid thousands of pounds to criminal gangs to break in to Britain all have come from a safe country France who let's face it should be doing so much more to stop them this is putting unsustainable pressure on our public finances and our Public Services it's straining Community cohesion jeopardizing National Security and harming Public Safety the British people all understand this Madame Deputy speaker the question is does the government and will it now finally act to stop it the Prime Minister rightly committed to doing whatever it takes to stop the boats and he should be commended for dedicating more time and toil than any many of his predecessors to this endeavor and unlike the leader of the opposition who would rather bury his head in the sand he has actually Advanced a [Music] plan we made some progress during my tenure as Home Secretary the overall Crossings Fallen by 30% the number of illegal Albanian arrivals down by 90% And we were starting to close down Asylum hotels but Madame Deputy speaker Crossings are down is not the same as stopping the boats no and as Home Secretary I consistently advocated for legislative measures that would have secured the delivery of our Rwanda partnership as soon as the bill became law last summer following defeat in the court of appeal I advised that we should scrap rather than continue continue passage of the illegal migration act bill in favor of a more robust alternative that excluded International and human rights laws when that was rejected I urged that we needed to work up a credible Plan B in the event of a supreme court loss following defeat in the Supreme Court the Prime Minister has finally agreed to introduce emergency legislation and I welcome his decision but Madam Deputy speaker it is now 3 weeks on from that judgment and we are yet to see a bill I'm told its publication is imminent but we are running out of time this is an emergency and we need to see the bill now Madame Deputy speaker my deeper concern however relates to the substance of what may be in that bill previous attempts have failed because they did not address the root cause of the problem expansive human rights laws flowing from the European convention on human rights replicated in Labor's Human Rights Act are being interpreted elastically by courts domestic and foreign to literally prevent our Rwanda plan from getting off the ground and this problem relates to so much more than just illegal arrivals from my time as Home Secretary I can say that the same human rights framework is producing insanities that the public would scarcely believe foreign terrorists we can't Deport because of their human rights terrorists we have to let back in because of their human rights foreign rapists and pedophiles who should have been removed but are released back into the community only to reoffend yep because of their human rights violent criminals pulled off deportation flights at the last minute thanks to the help of Labor MPS free to wander the streets and commit further horrific crimes including murder protesters leted off the hook for tearing down statues and gluing themselves to roads and our brave military veterans harassed through the courts some 40 years after their service Madame Deputy speaker it is no secret that I support leaving the European convention on human rights and replacing the human rights act with a British Bill of Rights that protects the vulnerable and our national security and finishes the job of brexit by extricating us from the foreign Court and restores real parliamentary Supremacy but I accept that the government won't do that and that it is a debate for another day and crucially when it comes to stopping the boates now leaving the E HR is not the only way to cut the guardian knot emergency legislation would enable this only if it meets the following tests firstly the bill must address a super Supreme Court's concerns about the safety of Rwanda secondly the bill must enable flights before the next election by blocking off all roots of challenge the powers to detain and remove must be exercisable not withstanding the Human Rights Act the European convention on human rights the refugee convention and all other international law thirdly the bill must remedy deficiencies in the illegal m ation act to ensure that removals can take place within days rather than allowing individual claims and challenges which drag on for months fourth the bill must enable the administrative Detention of illegal arrivals until they are removed and just as we rapidly built Nightingale hospitals to deal with covid so we must build Nightingale style detention facilities to deliver the necessary capacity Greece and Turkey have done so Greece and Turkey have done so and the only way to do this as I advocated for in government is with the support of the ministry of Defense fifth Parliament must be prepared to sit over Christmas to get this bill done all of this Madame Deputy speaker comes down to a simple question who governed Britain where does ultimate Authority for the UK lie is it with the British people and their elected representatives or is it in the vague shifting and unaccountable concept of international law on Monday Madame Deputy speaker the Prime Minister announced measures that start to better reflect public frustration on legal migration he can now follow that up with a bill that reflects public fury on illegal migration and actually stop the boats finally Madam Deputy speaker it is now or never the conservative party faces electoral Oblivion in a matter of months if we introduce the conservative party faces electoral Oblivion in a matter of months if we introduce yet another bill destined to fail Do We Fight for sovereignty or do we let our party die now I may not have always found the right words in the past Madam Deputy speaker but I refuse I refuse to sit by and allow us to fail the trust that millions of people placed in US cannot be discarded as An Inconvenient detail if we summon the political courage to do what is truly necessary difficult though it may be to fight for the British people we will regain their trust and if the Prime Minister leads that fight he has my total support thank [Applause] you thank the right of lady for her personal statement and we now move on to the presentation of bills I will allow those who wish to leave to do so get

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Length: 11min 25sec (685 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 06 2023