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The Guardian - UK
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Gaia Vince

A hotter world forcing people on the move needs vision, not Suella Braverman’s rabble-rousing words

Illustration of heat forcing people to migrate

Suella Braverman is right when she says there is a “hurricane” of migration coming, but the UK home secretary has no plan to weather the storm and her actions leave us all exposed.

Braverman’s populist speech, a thinly disguised leadership campaign, at the Tory party conference last week, contained all the predictable tropes and dog whistles aimed at bolstering nationalism: the trumped-up threat of outsiders; the mysterious and ubiquitous “woke” menace; and the liberal elites with their “luxury beliefs”.

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