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Suella Braverman
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“[On her parent's arrival in the UK] My father came to the UK to escape the Kenyan Asian crisis in 1968. His arrival probably saved his life. My mother was recruited in Mauritius as a girl of 18, and she has just passed her 45th year of service as a nurse. More passionate patriots cannot be imagined. It is clear that immigration has brought huge benefits to this country. We have a proud tradition of offering refuge, opportunity and a better life to those who take the risk of leaving their homeland.”
Suella Braverman (born 1980) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: House of Commons debate (13 October 2015: Column 261).
“I get a lot of abuse. I get trolled, Twitter has a very strong left wing bias [...] Actually for me, my barometer, it's got to this point where if I get trolled and I provoke a bad response on Twitter I know I'm doing the right thing. Twitter is a sewer of left-wing bile and there's very little sensible, moderate voices either way actually get drowned out. The extreme left pile on is often a consequence of sound conservative values.”
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Recorded in: Interviewed for "Teachers should not pander to trans pupils, says Suella Braverman" The Times (27 May 2022)
“I condemn the appalling disorder in Knowsley last night. The alleged behaviour of some asylum seekers is never an excuse for violence and intimidation. Thank you to @merseypolice officers for keeping everyone safe.”
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Recorded in: Tweet (11 February 2023), cited in "Suella Braverman condemns 'appalling disorder' in 'violent protest' outside asylum seeker hotel" LBC (12 February 2023)
“Those prognosticators of doom who said that Brexit would be an economic catastrophe for the UK – not only were they wrong, they demonstrated a profound ignorance of the British people when they attributed their legitimate desire to regain our national sovereignty as some mix of stupidity and xenophobia.”
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Recorded in: From a speech (15 May 2023) at the National Conservatism conference in London, as cited in "Multicultural push will end in tears, says Braverman" The Telegraph (15 May 2023)
“People like my Rt Hon Friend the Member for North East Somerset and Douglas Murray express mainstream, insightful and perfectly decent political views. People may disagree with them, but in no way are they extremists.”
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Recorded in: From a statement in the House of Commons on an independent review into PREVENT, the UK government's counter-radicalism strategy (7 September 2023).
“I'm here in America to talk about a critical and shared global challenge: uncontrolled and illegal migration [...] It is an existential challenge for the political and cultural institutions of the west.”
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“[Claiming the threshold of the Refugee Convention had been lowered for asylum seekers] Where individuals are being persecuted, it is right that we offer sanctuary. But we will not be able to sustain an asylum system if, in effect, simply being gay, or a woman, and fearful of discrimination in your country of origin is sufficient to qualify for protection.”
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Recorded in: Speech at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC (26 September 2023), as cited in "UN rebukes Suella Braverman over her attack on refugee convention", The Guardian (26 September 2023)
“Uncontrolled immigration, inadequate integration and a misguided dogma of multiculturalism have proven a toxic combination for Europe over the last few decades. Multiculturalism makes no demands of the incomer to integrate. It has failed because it allowed people to come to our society and live parallel lives in it. They could be in the society but not of the society. And, in extreme cases, they could pursue lives aimed at undermining the stability and threatening the security of society.”
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“If cultural change is too rapid and too big, then what was already there is diluted. Eventually it will disappear.”
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“It is no betrayal of my parents' story to say that immigration must be controlled.”
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Recorded in: Further comments from the speech in the United States, as cited in "Braverman: Multiculturalism has 'failed' and threatens security", The Independent (27 September 2023)
“I'm afraid we do see many instances where people purport to be gay when they're not actually gay, but in order to get special treatment. It's not the way our asylum system should work/”
Suella Braverman (born 1980) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Peston (27 September 2023), as cited in "Asylum seekers pretend to be gay to 'get special treatment', says Home Secretary", The Independent (27 September 2023)
“The British people are compassionate. We will always support those who are genuinely homeless. But we cannot allow our streets to be taken over by rows of tents occupied by people, many of them from abroad, living on the streets as a lifestyle choice.”
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“What I want to stop, and what the law abiding majority wants us to stop, is those who cause nuisance and distress to other people by pitching tents in public spaces, aggressively begging, stealing, taking drugs, littering, and blighting our communities.”
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Recorded in: From a sequence of posts (4 November 2023) on X (formerly known as Twitter), as cited in "Homeless people in tents have made a ‘lifestyle choice’, says Braverman", The Telegraph (4 November 2023).
“Now as we approach a particularly significant weekend in the life of our nation, one which calls for respect and commemoration, the hate marchers — a phrase I do not resile from — intend to use Armistice Day to parade through London in yet another show of strength.”
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“The answer must be: even-handedly. Unfortunately, there is a perception that senior police officers play favourites when it comes to protesters.”
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“Right-wing and nationalist protesters who engage in aggression are rightly met with a stern response yet pro-Palestinian mobs displaying almost identical behaviour are largely ignored, even when clearly breaking the law?”
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Recorded in: Police must be even-handed with protests", The Times (8 November 2023).
“The truth is that the Islamists, the extremists and the anti-Semites are in charge now. They have bullied the Labour Party, they have bullied our institutions, and now they have bullied our country into submission.”
Suella Braverman (born 1980) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Islamists are bullying Britain into submission", The Telegraph (22 February 2024).
“[T]o regain control of our borders properly and faithfully to the British people we do need to ultimately leave the European Convention on Human Rights. Judging from my conversations with him [Rishi Sunak], he never agreed with me on the proposition that I just set out.”
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Recorded in: Interviewed on LBC (9 April 2024), as cited in "Rishi Sunak faces cabinet revolt over leaving ECHR", The Times (10 April 2024)
“[On the Conservative's electoral rival, Reform UK] We need to, in the future, to find some way to work together because there shouldn’t be big differences between us. [...] I would welcome Nigel [Farage] into the Conservative party. There's not much difference really between him and many of the policies that we stand for. We are a broad church, we should be a welcoming party and an inclusive party and if someone is supportive of the party, that's a precondition and they want Conservatives to get elected then they should be welcomed.”
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Recorded in: From an interview, as cited in "Suella Braverman urges Tories to embrace Nigel Farage", The Times (9 June 2024)
“Our problem is us. Our problem is that the liberal Conservatives who trashed the Tory party think it was everyone’s fault but their own. My party governed as liberals and we were defeated as liberals. But seemingly, as ever, it is Conservatives who are to blame.”
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Recorded in: From a speech at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington D.C. (8 July 2024), "Braverman blames 'liberal Conservatives' for election defeat", Evening Standard (9 July 2024)
“We were slaughtered. Shellacked. Given a good hiding. Kicked while we were on the ground. Headbutted by reality.”
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Recorded in: From the speech in Washington D.C. (8 July 2024), as cited in "Suella Braverman blasts ‘entitled Tories’ in speech seen as a leadership pitch", The Independent (8 July 2024)
“If we don't recover the voters we deliberately, and arrogantly, spurned, we will turn the Conservative Party into the 21st century version of the 20th century Liberal Party. And we can do better than being a collection of fanatical, irrelevant, centrist cranks, who make it our business to insult our should-be voters for not being as smug and self-righteous as we are.”
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“If we keep disagreeing with Reform on many and fundamental things, we won't get those votes back. We have no God-given right to them. Any Tory leader who rejects Reform voters, doubles down on the disastrous decisions the last cabinet let Rishi Sunak make.”
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Recorded in: As cited in "Tories risk becoming 'centrist cranks', says Suella Braverman", The Telegraph (20 July 2024)
“What Donald Trump has taught us is that politics is not for the faint of heart. It demands conviction, clarity and a willingness to take risks. For Trump, the fight has never been about personal gain or elite approval – it has been about the people.”
Suella Braverman (born 1980) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Trump's triumph offers a new blueprint for Britain", The Telegraph (25 January 2025).
“On a cold February morning in 1968, a young man, not yet 21, stepped off a plane at Heathrow airport, nervously folding away his one-way ticket from Kenya. He had no family, no friends and was clutching only his most valuable possession, his British passport. His homeland was in political turmoil. Kenya had kicked him out for being British. My father never returned. He made his life here in Britain, starting on the shop floor of a paint factory. My mother, recruited by the NHS in Mauritius as a girl of 18, passed her 45th year of service last year. My family had nothing but hopes and dedication. They were so proud to be British and so proud to make our country even better. If I succeed in making some small contribution during my time in this place, it will reflect only a fraction of my gratitude to this country for the abundance of education, culture and traditions that have made Britain great, for the tolerance and fellowship of the British people, and for the opportunity and liberty that we all enjoy.”
Suella Braverman (born 1980) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Maiden speech "Britain in the World" Hansard Vol. 596, House of Commons debate (1 June 2015).
“Let's be clear about what is really going on here: the British people deserve to know which party is serious about stopping the invasion on our southern coast and which party is not. Some 40,000 people have arrived on the south coast this year alone. Many of them facilitated by criminal gangs, some of them actual members of criminal gangs. So let’s stop pretending that they are all refugees in distress. The whole country knows that is not true. It’s only the honourable members opposite who pretend otherwise. We need to be straight with the public. The system is broken. Illegal migration is out of control and too many people are interested in playing political parlour games, covering up the truth than solving the problem.”
Suella Braverman (born 1980) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement in the House of Commons (31 October 2022), cited in "Braverman faces criticism for Channel migrant 'invasion' claim" ITV News (1 November 2022)
“[On her parents] They owe everything to this country and they have taught me a deep and profound love of Britain and British people. Their tolerance, their generosity, their decency, their fair play. That also means that we must not shy away from saying there is a problem. There is a huge problem that we have right now when it comes to illegal migration, the scale of which we have not known before. I won’t apologise for the language that I have used to demonstrate the scale of the problem. I see my job as being honest with the British people and honest for the British people. I’m not going to shy away from difficult truths nor am I going to conceal what is the reality that we are all watching.”
Suella Braverman (born 1980) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Suella Braverman tells Holocaust survivor she will not apologise for ‘invasion’ rhetoric" The Guardian citing PA Media (16 January 2023)
“I want to put something on the record, it's perfectly respectable for a child of immigrants like me to say I'm deeply grateful to live here, to say that immigration has been overwhelmingly good for Great Britain but that we've had too much of it in recent years. And to say that uncontrolled and illegal migration is simply bad. Yet, despite our reasonable concerns we've raised on several occasions, I am subject to the most grotesque slurs for saying simple truths about the impact of unlimited and illegal immigration. The worst among them poisoned by the extreme ideology of identity politics suggests that a person's skin colour should dictate their political views. I will not be hectored by out of touch lefties or anyone for that matter. I won't be patronised on what appropriate views for someone of my background can hold. I will not back down when faced with spurious accusations of bigotry. When such smears seep into the discourse of this chamber, as they did last week, accusations that this government's policies, policies backed by the majority of the British people, are bigoted, are xenophobic, are dog whistles to racists, it is irresponsible and frankly beneath the dignity of this place. Politicians of all stripes should know better and they should choose their words carefully.”
Suella Braverman (born 1980) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons on the Illegal Migration Bill (13 March 2023), cited in Alix Culbertson "'I will not be hectored by out of touch lefties': Braverman hits out amid Migration Bill backlash" Sky News (13 Mar…