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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Cillian Sherlock

Home Secretary accused of ‘deliberately stoking division’ with NI comments

PA Wire

There have been calls for the sacking of Home Secretary Suella Braverman after she was accused of “deliberately stoking division” by using Northern Ireland as a point of comparison to characterise pro-Palestinian demonstrations planned for the UK as “hate marches”.

Sinn Fein president Mary-Lou McDonald branded the remarks as “extraordinary”, adding they “demonstrate the extent to which the Tory government and she, perhaps in particular, is at sea, and ignorant of Irish affairs”.

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