No Suella, the Church is not facilitating bogus asylum claims

Despite Suella Braverman’s claims, the Church is not to blame for Abdul Ezedi remaining in the UK, says Evan L John. It’s a broken system that deports vulnerable Christians and allows violent criminals to remain. MPs should stop slinging mud and work out how to make assessments safer

When it was revealed that the alleged perpetrator of the heinous chemical attacks in Clapham, Abdul Ezedi, had been granted asylum in the UK on grounds of a supposed religious conversion, the response was predictable. It did not take long for commentators - many of them currently in Government - to find an obvious scapegoat.

Writing for The Telegraph, Suella Braverman accused the Church of ”facilitating industrial-scale bogus asylum claims”. Former immigration minister, Robert Jenrick MP, told The Express that ‘naive’ vicars were helping asylum seekers to ‘game’ the system.