Suella Braverman was warned over Manston migrant centre overcrowding

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She was forced to resign as home secretary over the breach when Liz Truss was prime minister but was reappointed six days later by Rishi Sunak.Concerns Ms Braverman failed to act on legal advice about keeping asylum seekers at Manston were first reported by the Sunday Times.Migrants are only supposed to be kept there for 24 hours, but when the chief inspector of immigration visited last week, he found some people had been there for over a month.Sources told the BBC Ms Braverman's predecessor as home secretary Priti Patel had been "reluctant" to sign off on sending asylum seekers to hotels but did so because she was aware that it was her legal duty to do so."The number of people arriving in the UK via small boats has reached record levels, which has put our asylum system under incredible pressure and costs the British taxpayer millions of pounds a day.""

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