Embedded into the weak Rishi Sunak government, Conservatibe Firebrand Suella Braverman may not have been the most effective Home Secretary in UK history, but there’s one thing she made absolutely clear: she is a real unapologetic conservative like few others.
Now, the MP for Fareham is still struggling to bring British politics away from wokeism and back to common sense policies.
In an interview, Braverman has now refused to rule out defecting to Reform UK from the Conservative party.
She declined to deny that she may join Nigel Farage’s party, and refused to confirm she would still be a Tory MP at the end of this Parliament.
She urged Tories to cut net migration to the tens of thousands or – even better – freeze it altogether, as Reform UK is polling two points above the Conservatives.
The Telegraph reported:
“Asked whether she would ‘bring your undoubted talents to Reform’, Mrs. Braverman said: ‘I’m sorry, Trevor, that we [Tories] failed you. We let many of our lifelong supporters, just like Trevor. We let them down on immigration, mainly, but also on other things. We oversaw a 70-year high tax burden, and we failed to properly take on the politically correct, virtue-signaling woke virus, to use Elon Musk’s words, that has taken over many of our schools and our public services and our Civil Service’.”
She says she wants a Conservative prime minister and government. And she feels there isn’t space for two conservative parties in the UK.
“So, we need to find an accommodation. There’s no way that we’re going to stop Labour. If Reform is polling [at] 26 per cent and we’re on 24 per cent, that is a recipe for another five years of Labour. So, we need to think about what we do about this problem.”
She declined to confirm that she would still be a Tory MP by the end of the current Parliament, and sees a lot of common ground with Reform UK.
“In a frank assessment of the Tories’ time in office, Mrs. Braverman admitted that her party had ‘failed enormously and dreadfully’ on both legal and illegal immigration. She echoed calls from some of her fellow Tory backbenchers for Mrs. Badenoch to freeze net migration or cap it in the low tens of thousands if the Tories returned to government.
‘I would support a figure very much in the low tens of thousands, back to the 1990s level, or a net zero migration level, as some of my colleagues have pointed out’, she said. ‘And I think that would be sufficient to undo the damage that’s been done’.
‘We need something radical; we need something meaningful, but we need something that people can trust. […] We need to be the party that restores sovereignty, common sense, patriotism and pride in our country, and the British people need to have confidence that we are that party to do it’.”
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