TORY MP Andrew Bridgen has backed Home Secretary Suella Braverman, insisting she represents the best chance of dealing with the Channel migrant crisis.
He told GB News: “It’s a totemic issue in my constituency and across the country. I think Suella Braverman is the best chance we’ve got of solving this, and she’s getting a lot of push back from the left, because they know that she’s serious about dealing with it.
“Quite honestly, if the Conservative Government can’t come up with a solution in the next 18 months, I think it’s going to be very difficult for us at the next general election.
“Indeed, we’ve got local elections next May, which is going to be pretty pivotal, really.”
In an interview with Tom Harwood on GB News, he said: “Whether the numbers are growing, we promised the public after the Brexit referendum, we’d take back control of our borders. And the biggest sign that we haven’t taken control of our borders is this illegal migration of economic migrants coming from now mostly from young men coming from Albania.
“Albania is a country that’s in NATO, it’s applying to join the European Union, it’s a safe country, there is no excuse for them to illegally enter the country. And, quite honestly, if Suella Braverman wants to bring forward a bill which says that anybody who enters the country illegally from a safe third country will be immediately deported, I’ll be voting for it, and I think a lot of my colleagues will as well. We’re getting to that point.
He added: “We’re using the word invasion. That’s what the perception is by the public.
“It’s time for plain speaking now and the Government and the Cabinet have got to understand how totemic this is for most of the British electorate. They’re working hard, they’re paying a lot of tax, and they don’t want to see money being spent on keeping people in hotels who’ve come here, okay for a better life.
“But if we’re going to let everyone in who wants a better life, it’s going to be standing room only in this country and the only time they’re ever going to stop coming is a time when the situation in this country is worse than the country they’re leaving.
“That’s not acceptable to my constituents, not acceptable to me, and it’s not acceptable to my colleagues.”
