Tory MP says Suella Braverman’s rhetoric ‘damaging’ and ‘feeds into far right’

Rehman Chishti urged the Home Secretary to ‘get on and do her job’.

Tory former minister Rehman Chishti (Beresford Hodge/PA) (PA Archive)

Suella Braverman’s rhetoric on illegal migration is “damaging to our communities” and “feeds into the far right”, a Tory former minister has warned.

Rehman Chishti urged the Home Secretary to “get on and do her job” but shied away from calling for her to resign insisting “it’s up to the Prime Minister”.

Mr Chishti was speaking from the counting hall in Gillingham, Kent, where Labour is looking to take the council, Medway, despite having been in the hands of the Conservatives since 2003.