SUELLA BRAVERMAN claimed it was her “dream” and “obsession” to see a flight deporting refugees to Rwanda splashed across newspaper front pages.

The Home Secretary made the “deeply disturbing” comments at a Conservative fringe event on Tuesday. 

“I would love to have a front page of The Telegraph with a plane taking off to Rwanda, that’s my dream, it’s my obsession,” Ms Braverman said, when asked why the government had failed to stop small boat crossings. 

The Home Secretary’s chilling rhetoric was met with outrage and disgust by campaigners, who today highlighted the harm inflicted on asylum-seekers targeted by the policy, some of whom have attempted suicide over fears of being deported. 

Care4Calais founder Clare Mosely said: “The government’s Rwanda plan has already inflicted terror and harm on people who have experienced some of the worst things imaginable in the world.

“It is deeply concerning that Suella Braverman nonchalantly declares it her dream to inflict more abuses on these people.”

Freedom from Torture chief executive Sonya Sceats described Ms Braverman’s comments as “deeply disturbing.”

She said: “Given evidence that the government is attempting to expel survivors of torture, rape and persecution, the delight Braverman takes in deliberately cruel rhetoric is particularly concerning.”

Ms Braverman used her first major speech to Tory conference on Tuesday to announce a new raft of anti-refugee measures, going further than her predecessor Priti Patel. 

They include imposing a blanket ban on anyone entering Britain via irregular routes from claiming asylum and hints of changes to human rights and modern day slavery laws to prevent the legislation being used to stop deportations to Rwanda. 

Refugee Council CEO Enver Solomon said people it has supported who’ve been earmarked for deportation to Rwanda, including children, are “terrified” of being sent there. 

“The Home Secretary’s inhumane approach treats men, women and possibly even children as human cargo by sending them on a one-way trip to Rwanda, where they face immensely uncertain futures.”