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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Deputy political editor

Suella Braverman rails against ‘experts and elites’ in partisan speech

Suella Braverman
Suella Braverman: ‘The left’s is a politics of pessimism, guilt, national division, resentment and utopianism.’ Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Suella Braverman has railed against “experts and elites” and what she called the divisive politics of identity, in a highly partisan speech that is likely to be viewed as setting out ideas for a post-election Conservative leadership bid.

Addressing the National Conservatism conference in Westminster, the home secretary made comments trailed in advance about the need for the UK to cut back on legal migration and train domestic workers for jobs such as fruit picking.

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