The Latest Breaking News from Suella Braverman

LONDON: The UK government Tuesday unveiled radical plans to stop migrants crossing the English Channel illegally on small boats, acknowledging it is stretching international law amid an outcry from rights campaigners.

The U.K. government says it's ready for legal challenges to a tough new law intended to stop tens of thousands of migrants a year reaching the country in small boats across the English Channel

The Home Secretary said it would ‘betray’ British voters not to tackle the ‘waves of illegal migrants’.

UNHCR ‘profoundly concerned’ by bill that would allow government to criminalise, detain and deport asylum seekers

Government faces legal battle as critics say migrant scheme is breach of international law

‘This bill isn’t a solution, it’s a con,’ Yvette Cooper says as MPs question how law can be put into practice

Outlining her controversial Illegal Migration Bill, the Home Secretary announced in the House of Commons that those who arrive in small boats will be detained without bail or judicial review

Watch the scene in the House of Commons as Suella Braverman announces her plan to stop illegal channel crossings.

Government says small boat asylum seekers will be ‘inadmissible’ but only 21 people have been deported under rules

Home Secretary Suella Braverman said the new plan is needed because the asylum system is being ‘overwhelmed’.

UNHCR says bill extinguishes the right to seek refugee protection in the UK for those who arrive irregularly