Suella Braverman plans for vulnerable refugee children to undergo x-rays

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Home Secretary Suella Braverman is at risk of inflaming the migration line with plans for vulnerable refugee children to undergo x-rays to verify their ages.

The move comes after Rishi Sunak, the prime minister, told the cabinet he wants Britain to be a 'compassionate and welcoming country', distancing himself from the minister's controversial claim Interior that the UK was under an "invasion" of asylum seekers.

p>As counter-terrorism police took over the investigation into the firebombing of a center separate immigration office in Kent, it emerged that Ms Braverman's inflammatory remark had not been cleared with No 10. And Mr Sunak's official spokesman declined to say whether the Prime Minister considered it as appropriate.

Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick, said Ms Braverman had tried to express 'the magnitude of the challenge' but acknowledged it was necessary to 'choose your words very carefully' and said he himself had not used the sentence.

Refugee charity Care4Calais told The Independent that the X-ray proposals raised "serious safeguarding concerns".

The Home Secretary has faced allegations from a senior Tory MP that she misled Parliament when she denied dangerous overcrowding at a migrant processing center was because 'she was blocking the use of hotels to accommodate people arriving in the UK by small boat.

And another Tory MP said Ms Braverman's emphasis on tough measures to deter Channel crossings would not work, and the Home Office should instead concentrate its efforts on clearing the huge backlog of legitimate asylum applications.

David Simmonds, who chairs Parliament's cross-party group on migration, told The Independent that the most effective way to undermine the activities of smuggling gangs would be to establish legal pathways for displaced people to come to the UK to have their claims assessed.

Hundreds of people have been displaced from Manston on Tuesday in an attempt to ease overcrowding that has seen some asylum seekers spend weeks in a temporary detention center intended only for rapid initial processing over a period of no more than 48 hours.

In a defiant appearance in the House of Commons on Monday, Ms Braverman denied allegations that she ignored legal advice to get more hotel rooms to allow individuals and families to leave the centre.< /p>

The government spending £6.8million a day to house migrants in hotels, she insisted she had the right to order a review of the workings of the system.