Immigration minister Robert Jenrick has defended the Home Secretary over her comments about an "invasion on our southern coast", to describe the numbers crossing the Channel.Suella Braverman made the remarks in the Commons chamber on Monday, prompting uproar.Asked about the word on BBC Breakfast, he said: "I think it's a word that was expressing the sheer scale of the illegal migration that we're seeing as a country. We can't brush that under the carpet."

Immigration minister Robert Jenrick has defended the Home Secretary over her comments about an "invasion on our southern coast", to describe the numbers crossing the Channel.Suella Braverman made the remarks in the Commons chamber on Monday, prompting uproar.Asked about the word on BBC Breakfast, he said: "I think it's a word that was expressing the sheer scale of the illegal migration that we're seeing as a country. We can't brush that under the carpet."