The home secretary’s extreme views are shared by the Tory membership and beyond, writes Guardian columnist Owen Jones
of those who hope to find refuge in the UK. LGBTQ Britons who became accustomed to perpetual progress after the 90s should now prepare for worse to come.
That her speech was signed off by No 10 makes it the official position of the British government, but Braverman’s US appearance looks more like a freelance expedition. The Tories are heading for a potentially cataclysmic defeat, perhaps by next spring or summer. A long, arduous stretch in opposition fills many a parliamentarian with dread, and it could hardly have escaped Braverman’s notice that the rightwing lecture circuit in the US is flush with cash.
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