'Should NOT be rolling out the red carpet!' Suella Braverman tells Havant Council to 'hang their head in shame' after 'failing local people' with asylum plans

Braverman personally thanked her constituents at a gathering in the town centre, after plans put forward by Havant Borough Council to house asylum seekers there were scrapped.

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Speaking to GB News reporter Charlie Peters about the community's victory, Braverman said: "I think this is a great victory for the people of Waterlooville. That's why I'm here, not to grandstand or claim victory, this is to say thank you to the people.

"They protested peacefully and respectfully, they signed my petition in the thousands, and they supported local Conservative councillors who exposed this plan. We shamed and embarrassed the council and the Home Office into stopping their plan, so all credit to the people of Waterlooville."

Highlighting the record numbers of men arriving illegally in Britain and being housed in similar accommodation, Braverman added: "Over 90 per cent of illegal arrivals are men of fighting age. Young, single men. And it's very hard to actually find families to accommodate and populate sites around the country.

"I saw that as Home Secretary, and so very often councillors might promise to house families, women and children, but it doesn't always materialise that way because they are very few and far between."

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Asked by Charlie what her suggestion for alternative asylum accommodation would be, the Tory MP claimed migrants should be housed in "tented accommodation" rather than the Government "rolling out the red carpet".

Braverman explained: "I do think that they should be kept in bespoke tented accommodation largely which is not residential buildings, because we have thousands of people just in Havant alone who are in need of social housing, who are declared homeless. They should be put first.

"We have veterans who are homeless around the country, they should be put into this accommodation and frankly, we should not be rolling out the red carpet and putting people in five star luxury accommodation or luxury flats."

Criticising migrant hotels and housing as a "bad use of taxpayer money", she told GB News: "That is not a good use of taxpayer money and it's frankly not fair."

Hitting back at critics who called her "inflammatory" for her stance on migrant accommodation, Braverman declared it is "not inflammatory to speak up for your community".

She stated: "They were caught red handed and they had to deflect, so of course they didn't quite call me racist, but they were trying to find the next best thing, so they went for inflammatory. And at the end of the day, um, it's not inflammatory to say no, we don't want illegal migrants in our town centre.

"And it's not inflammatory to want to secure our borders. I speak for thousands of people and unfortunately Havant Borough Council should hang their heads in shame for failing local people.

"People have had enough and people feel scared. They feel angry, but most importantly, they feel powerless.

"They don't feel like anybody in Westminster, any politician is really doing anything about this crisis or taking it seriously. Instead, they're being dismissed as far right or inflammatory and there's no honesty, and that's why they're taking to the streets, albeit peacefully in Waterlooville, of which I'm very proud.

"But they feel that's the only option they have left to do something and feel some kind of agency over this crisis which is sweeping our country."