LGBTQ+ Conservatives have been urged by the Labour MP Ben Bradshaw to condemn Suella Braverman’s speech in which she will say that Britain should not grant asylum to people who are simply fearful of persecution for being gay.
The former minister made the call ahead of a speech the home secretary is due to make in the US where she will make her case for the rewriting of key international refugee rules so they are “fit for the modern age”.
In a move to alter an agreement that undermined UK plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, the home secretary will argue that the United Nations 1951 refugee convention must be reformed to tackle a worldwide migration crisis.
She will argue that case law arising from the convention has lowered the threshold so that asylum seekers need only prove that they face “discrimination” instead of a real risk of torture, death or violence. As case law has developed, she will say, there has been “an interpretive shift away from ‘persecution’, in favour of something more akin to a definition of ‘discrimination’.” » | Ben Quinn, Political correspondent | Tuesday, September 26, 2023
This woman is truly shameless. She is herself from immigrant stock. This country was kind enough to give her family asylum, but now she wants to deny the same kindness and compassion which her family received to people who are so often persecuted in their homelands. In fact, many of them are in danger of being put to death.
Has this woman no shame? Has this woman no feeling? Has this woman no compassion? Has this woman no mercy?
This dangerous woman has managed to climb the social ladder. Apparently, she now lives in Harrow, having been born in Wembley. But one thing she hasn't managed to do: adopt a British mentality and character. We Brits have been famous for our fairness and compassion, especially to people in distress and danger. Are we now really going to allow people like this to destroy Britain's once proud reputation?
Her tough ideas and attitudes towards gays are really out of place in modern Britain. However, Uganda, I feel absolutely sure, would welcome her and her tough ideas! – © Mark Alexander
