‘Utterly despicable’
Tory Home Secretary Suella Braverman slammed for speech ‘straight out of the far-right playbook’ and for emulating Enoch Powell

WAGING war on the “woke,” blocking the boats and backing armed police was the far-right message from Home Secretary Suella Braverman today as she pandered to every prejudice at Tory Party conference.
Ms Braverman reinforced her reputation as the darling of the Tory right by hitting out at migrants and progressive opinion in her speech in Manchester.
She tried to make the flesh creep with a warning that a “hurricane” was bringing “millions more migrants to these shores,” a bid to echo Enoch Powell’s infamous “rivers of blood” rhetoric.
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