The home secretary’s speech in Washington on Tuesday is a stark warning to all who value basic human rights for women, gay people and refugees fleeing war, persecution, poverty and climate change (UN rebukes Suella Braverman over her attack on refugee convention, 26 September). Suella Braverman’s readiness to casually rip up the 1951 refugee convention, born of the horrors of nazism, can only encourage the hard right and neo-Nazis everywhere.
The skies are already darkening across much of Europe. In the UK, their followers are constantly probing to whip up anti-refugee sentiment, the prison-like ship in Portland being only the most high-profile example. There are many others, such as cynical dog-whistling over deportations to Rwanda.
