For years, I urged minorities to join the Tories. But now there’s Suella Braverman, I say – get out!

Suella Braverman visiting the site of housing intended for deported migrants from the UK in Kigali, Rwanda, March 2023. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

I have been a politics junkie since 1960. Accordingly, I remember the Labour party introducing the Race Relations Act 1965, while Conservatives regularly made and defended racist remarks, the worst being Enoch Powell’s “rivers of blood” speech in 1968. My future wife’s Pakistani origin family in Romford experienced racist attacks for the first time after that speech.