The Home Secretary has refused to apologise to a Holocaust survivor who was concerned with the language she used. Suella Braverman’s description of migrants as an “invasion” was akin to language the Nazis used to justify murdering her family, the Belgian woman said.
Joan Salter, 83, spoke to Ms Braverman during a meeting in her Fareham constituency in Hampshire on Friday (January 14) evening. Ms Salter, who has been recognised with an MBE for her work on Holocaust education, likened the rhetoric on migrants attempting to cross the English Channel by Ms Braverman to that used by the Nazis during the Second World War.
In footage of the exchange, provided by the charity Freedom From Torture, Ms Salter said: “I am a child survivor of the Holocaust. In 1943, I was forced to flee my birthplace in Belgium and went across war-torn Europe and dangerous seas until I finally was able to come to the UK in 1947.
