Migrants have a cheek to says minister complain,

A Home Offie minister has been branded “callous” after he hit out at migrants for complaining about desperate conditions at an overcrowded processing centre in Kent.

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The government has been scrambling to resolve the crisis after it emerged at the weekend that around 4,000 people were being held at a site designed for 1,600.

Within hours, Downing Street distanced itself from Mr Philp’s comments, saying migrants deserved to be treated “with compassion and respect”. Mr Philp later remained silent when he was doorstepped by a television crew to ask if he stood by his comments.

Immigration minister Robert Jenrick was also heckled by some residents on a visit to Dover with the town’s MP Natalie Elphicke and dodged questions from the press.

The home secretary Suella Braverman was roundly condemned for claiming the UK faced an “invasion” on its south coast earlier this week, 24 hours after a firebomb attack on an immigration centre in Dover.