UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman has questioned whether the United Nations’ 1951 Refugee Convention is fit for our modern age. She told a meeting of the right wing American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC that "we now live in a completely different time" from when the convention was signed.

Ms Braverman said, "we will not be able to sustain an asylum system if in effect, simply being gay, or a woman, and fearful of discrimination in your country of origin is sufficient to qualify for protection."

Adrian Goldberg discusses her speech with Leila Zadeh, executive director of the charity Rainbow Migration, and Natasha Tsangarides of Freedom From Torture.

Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White.

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