Allies of Suella Braverman believe she is now more likely than Kemi Badenoch to win the support of the Tory right when the next leadership election kicks off
The Home Secretary told the National Conservatism conference in Westminster that her Conservative philosophy was instilled in her by her parents. “Ours, like my parents’, is a politics of optimism of pride, national unity, aspiration, and realism,” she said. “The left’s is a politics of pessimism, guilt, national division, resentment, and utopianism.”
Ms Braverman said that people who come to the UK “must not commit crimes”, “need to learn English and understand British social norms” and “cannot simply turn up and say: ‘I live here now, you have to look after me’”. Her parents “embraced British values”, she said, adding: “The unexamined drive towards multiculturalism as an end in itself, combined with identity politics, is a recipe for communal disaster. We cannot have immigration without integration. And if we lack the confidence to promote our culture, defend our values, and venerate our past, then we have nothing to integrate people into.”
Ms Braverman said that while preventing “illegal migration” in the Channel is the Government’s priority, they “must not lose sight of the importance of controlling legal migration as well”, saying she wants HGV driver, butcher and fruit picker jobs to eventually be filled by Britons. A preview of her speech was seen as a warning to Cabinet colleagues against relaxing immigration rules in a bid to boost economic growth.Related Article
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