Suella Braverman might be right, but has the wrong answers

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Had Suella Braverman considered what causes migration she might have argued against her own government’s policies (PA Wire)

Suella Braverman is correct in that a “hurricane of migrants” is coming. 

What she hasn’t considered however (surprisingly) is that tighter border controls will not stop people migrating when so many countries are now facing the catastrophic impacts of climate change. Rising sea levels are already affecting countries like Bangladesh and arid lands mean large parts of Africa are facing agricultural disasters. All while those thousands of people affected can see on social media that their lives are immeasurably poorer than those we enjoy in the UK.

Had she thought any such things through she might have argued against her government’s policies to slow efforts to combat climate change and to reduce International Development Aid that tries to alleviate the need to emigrate.