Susanna Reid called out Suella Braverman for her claim of “billions” of migrants and people loved it

It’s been a while since Piers Morgan was on Good Morning Britain when Cabinet ministers stopped attending the program because he was making it so difficult for them.

If you’re thinking that it’s easier now that he’s in the lower reaches of Talk TV, you’d be dead wrong.

We bring this up after moderator Susanna Reid confronted Home Secretary Suella Braverman over her claim that “there are 100 million people fleeing around the world and probably billions more looking to get here if possible”.

And there it is.

Stupidest thing you’ll ever read from a UK Home Secretary…well…so far pic.twitter.com/Xv8NwirJFS

— Otto English (@Otto_English) March 8, 2023

All related to the government’s extraordinary Illegal Migration Act, of course – read 22 Totally Apt Disables here – and people loved the GMB moderator for it.

“On which planet is this likely and why isn’t that inflammatory language?”@susannareid100 grilling @SuellaBraverman to her comments in the House of Commons, in which she claimed: “One hundred million displaced people around the world and probably billions more eager to come here is possible.” pic.twitter.com/fNGCiMMCjW

– Good morning Great Britain (@GMB) March 8, 2023

More of this kind of stuff please! And here are our favorite things people have said about it.

1.

Susanna Reid handing Suella Braverman her gaslighting ass on a plate is beautiful

Watch the video, she told the Mail daily BILLIONS are on their way to the UK

The Tories are scaremongering on an extremist level #RefugeesWelcome #ToryGaslighting

pic.twitter.com/652yA49tDE

— Kerry ✊💙💙 (supportive nurses) (@hewitson10) March 8, 2023

2.

I have a feeling politicians still make the mistake of believing that GMB will be an easy feat pic.twitter.com/PqjV3bAqwR

– Alan White (@aljwhite) March 8, 2023

3.

Suella Braverman challenged by #GMB on her claim that “billions” of people are trying to get to the UK.

“Numbers are debatable, but…”

No. “Tens of thousands” vs. “billions” is not an argument about numbers. It’s about sheer dishonesty and targeted disinformation. ~AA pic.twitter.com/JS0uor0Vdv

— Best for Britain (@BestForBritain) March 8, 2023

4.

Wonderful, @susannareid100. Bullies like Cruella need to be challenged by people willing to tell the truth. Thank you for being that voice today.

— Suzannah Lipscomb (@sixteenthCgirl) March 8, 2023

5.

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. There are very few moderators, political or lobbying journalists who dare to hold the Tories to account more forcefully than Susanna Reid. Here she takes down Suella Braverman with facts. pic.twitter.com/hvY8wptXEh

— Tim Brannigan (@tim_brannigan) March 8, 2023

6.

TORY MATH

Susanna Reid gives Suella Braverman a math lesson

On their claim that 100 million people are coming to Britain

She adds

“On which planet is this likely”

SCHOOL

pic.twitter.com/VEKa2gr8GI

— Ramesh Patel — You’d rather ignore that (@Imalright_Jack) March 8, 2023

7.

100 million refugees worldwide

40,000 people cross the English Channel

Suella’s wrestling with numbers was intended to show how little we are doing to help refugees pic.twitter.com/HUawNXFFSA

– Cllr Benali Hamdache 🧡 (@greenbenali) March 8, 2023

8th.

“Good morning, thank you for inviting me to come with you this…morning.” HOW I CRYED! pic.twitter.com/x1i7NsFMiA

– Bucker (@deathofbuckley) March 8, 2023

9.

1. Good on @susannareid100 for this.
2. The last 30 seconds or so of this is quite spectacular because she lists all her own mistakes as substantive reasons she believes a much worse policy focusing on those mistakes is warranted.

— Ramya Jaidev [email protected] (@JaidevRamya) March 8, 2023

10

A Braverman almost feels sorry for that

On second thought, no, it doesn’t

— Mike Ward (@badsciencemonk) March 8, 2023

11.

Well done @susannareid100 – Some of the language and messages were absurd

— Jon Sopel (@jonsopel) March 8, 2023

And here’s BBC’s Jon Kay doing something similar at BBC1’s Breakfast.

Jon Kay – You suggested that 100 million people would come to the UK?

Suella Braverman – “I see my role in being honest…” 👀#BBCbreakfast pic.twitter.com/lzA8Y5eWJx

— Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 (@Haggis_UK) March 8, 2023

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