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Will Hayward

Suella Braverman: Allegations of racism and the Buddhist sect mired in sex abuse claims

Home secretary Suella Braverman is seemingly a bag of contradictions. She could be the poster girl for a modern multi-cultural, ethically-diverse, out-ward-looking Britain. Born to Indian immigrant parents, her Hindu mum emigrated from Mauritius and her Christian dad from Kenya. She is a practicing Buddhist and is married to a Jew. She even used the EUs Erasmus program to study abroad in France.

And yet, she has positioned herself as the champion of the far right flank of the Tory party, has used language described as "racist" to describe asylum seekers coming from France in boats as an "invasion" and suggested that sexual grooming gang members being predominantly British-Pakistani men who "hold cultural values totally at odds with British values". As a passionate Brexiteer she helped dismantle British students access to the Erasmus scheme she herself benefitted from.

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