Good morning. To absolutely no one’s surprise, Suella Braverman’s heavily trailed speech to the National Conservatism conference yesterday was an exercise in playing to her base.
Her fellow Conservatives weren’t too happy about her attempts to burnish her future leadership ambitions: one accused her of thinking “being home secretary was some side hustle”, and another said most MPs were “rolling their eyes”. Her speech featured red meat lines for the right about trans people, why “white people do not exist in a special state of sin”, “the ethnicity of grooming gang perpetrators”, and experts. But most concrete was what she had to say about immigration – and why she thinks that the UK is in danger of “forgetting how to do things for ourselves”.
