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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Ben Quinn Political correspondent

Rishi Sunak rejects Braverman claim multiculturalism has failed

Rishi Sunak (L) and Suella Braverman sit together on the front bench in the House of Commons.
Rishi Sunak (L) and Suella Braverman sit together on the frontbench in the House of Commons. Photograph: Jessica Taylor/UK parliament/AFP/Getty Images

Rishi Sunak has praised the UK’s “fantastic multicultural democracy”, in direct contrast to Suella Braverman’s claims this week that multiculturalism had failed.

The home secretary was criticised by fellow Conservative MPs after she claimed during a speech to a rightwing US thinktank that world leaders had failed to make wholesale reform of human rights laws because of fears of being called “racist or illiberal”.

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