Suella Braverman: West faces 'existential threat' if asylum system not reformed

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The asylum system poses an existential threat to the West if it is not reformed, the Home Secretary has said. In a speech in the US Suella Braverman, claimed millions of asylum seekers were being incentivised to 'try their luck' She said it was time for the 'definition of who qualifies for protection' to be 'tightened' as she advocated for changes to international treaties governing refugee rules.

Without a major overhaul and international co-operation, the senior Conservative warned that developed nations face being wiped out by a wave of economic migration.

She said uncontrolled and irregular migration was 'an existential challenge for the political and cultural institutions of the West'. "Just as it is a basic rule of history that nations which cannot defend their borders will not long survive, it is a basic rule of politics that political systems which cannot control their borders will not maintain the consent of the people, and thus not long endure,” she said during a speech made in Washington DC on Tuesday. READ MORE: Woman who died after plunging into river during cold water therapy 'suffered cardiac arrest' READ MORE: Microsoft, Heinz and the BBC back Andy Burnham's education plans...

but the government won't Mrs Braverman said European and United Nations’ accords on refugee rights could be a struggle to update due to the unwieldy task of getting member states to agree on changes.