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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jon Henley Europe correspondent

How Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives have begun to embrace ‘textbook populism’

Suella Braverman
The UK home secretary, Suella Braverman, delivered a speech at the Tory party conference that was ‘textbook populism’. Photograph: Adam Vaughan/EPA

Suella Braverman’s Conservative conference speech could have been delivered by a populist, far-right continental leader such as Marine Le Pen and there are strong signs that is the way the party may be heading, European political scientists have said.

The UK home secretary warned delegates in Manchester this week of a “hurricane” of mass migration, suggested the Human Rights Act should be renamed the “Criminal Rights Act” and attacked the “luxury beliefs” of a “privileged woke minority”.

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