Braverman goes full Trump with appeal in US to ‘make Britain great again’
Braverman goes full Trump with appeal in US to ‘make Britain great again’
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The former home secretary gave her latest anti-immigration speech in Washington DC amid speculation she could become pivotal in bringing the Tories and Reform UK together. Suella Braverman has become the latest Tory rightwinger to seek a relaunch of her political career in the US with a major speech appealing for help “to make Britain Great again”.
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Following in the footsteps of ex-PM Liz Truss, the former, home secretary who was sacked by Rishi Sunak, has given a speech at the Heritage Foundation in Washington DC accusing Keir Starmer of “breaking the special relationship”. She claimed there is a need to restore sovereignty, protect British values, and end mass migration as “a fundamental step to make Britain great again.”.
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The location of her speech at the thinktank involved in compiling the controversial rightwing Project 2025 policy document for the Trump administration appears to be symbolic of her hopes of a political comeback. The speech at the annual Margaret Thatcher Freedom Lecture comes amid speculation she could become a pivotal figure in bringing Reform and the Tories together in some sort of deal to defeat Labour.
Ms Braverman recently denied she was about to join Reform when her husband Raul publicly quit the Tories to join Nigel Farage’s party. But she has since been coy about her intentions and has remained distant from the new leadership under Kemi Badenoch.
In a tub-thumping speech to remind her audience of her rightwing credentials, Ms Braverman declared that the special relationship between the UK and the US “lies in tatters, all thanks to Keir Starmer and his weak, globalist, establishment first, Britain last policies.”.
