Wed 05 October 2022:
Britain’s Indian-origin Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, has blamed the recent riots in Leicester following an India-Pakistan cricket match on uncontrolled migration into the UK and the failure of newcomers to integrate.
In her first speech since being appointed home minister at the Conservative Party annual conference in Birmingham on Tuesday evening, Braverman referenced her visit to the eastern England city after clashes involving many Hindu and Muslim groups last month.
The unexamined drive towards multiculturalism as an end in itself combined with the corrosive aspects of identity politics has led us astray, Braverman told the audience of Tory MPs and members.
I saw this when I went to Leicester recently. A melting pot of cultures and a beacon of religious harmony. But even there, riots and civil disorder have taken place because of failures to integrate large numbers of newcomers. Such conflict has no place in the UK, she said.
The daughter of a Tamil mother and Goan-origin father, Braverman insisted it was not racist to want to control the UK’s borders as she pledged to cut low-skilled foreign workers.
The minister reiterated that integration did not mean abandoning their Indian heritage but meant adopting British identity.
This is the best place on earth to come and live in, but I fear that we are losing sight of the core values and the culture that made it so, she warned.
As part of her pledge on migration, the new home minister vowed to control the small boats bringing illegal migrants across the English Channel, leaving a safe country like France and “abusing” the UK’s asylum system. Praising the efforts of her predecessor, Priti Patel also of Indian origin, Braverman committed herself to making the scheme of deporting illegal migrants to Rwanda work, which Patel had launched but is yet to fully take off.
Braverman’s pledge to cut crime with more PCs, less PC , a reference to increasing the number of police constables (PCs) and reducing the political correctness (PC) preventing them from acting in some cases won her all round applause at the conference.
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