Thursday briefing: Why Suella Braverman attacked refugee rights in Washington

In today's newsletter: The British home secretary called the UN's 1951 refugee convention outdated' and criticised multiculturalism (again). Why has she made this speech now?

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Suella Braverman has spent the last few days on the other side of the Atlantic discussing global migration and international refugee law. During her trip, the home secretary made a speech to a rightwing thinktank - the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington DC - that was littered with incendiary comments and dubious statistics.

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