The meteoric rise of Suella Braverman

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🗓️ 12 October 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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She has been an MP for only seven years but has been catapulted into one of the biggest jobs in politics. And, just over a month in, she is already making waves. But what do we know about the former lawyer – and what does she want to do as home secretary?. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0	This is the Guardian.
0:07.7	Today, the new home secretary is already stoking controversy.
0:12.3	Just who is Suella Bravaman?
0:14.5	I'm not embarrassed to say that I love Britain.
0:16.5	This is Suella Bravaman, the home secretary, the woman in charge of policing national security and immigration.
0:24.5	No conservators.
0:26.5	You might not have heard of this.
0:28.5	I'm not embarrassed to say that I love Britain.
0:32.5	This is Suella Bravaman, the home secretary, the woman in charge of policing national security and immigration.
0:40.5	No conservators.
0:42.5	You might not have heard her voice much yet, because she's only been in the job for just over a month.
0:48.5	It's not racist for anyone, ethnic minority who are otherwise to want to control our borders.
0:54.5	But her rhetoric will seem familiar to anyone who's engaged with the debates over Brexit in the past six years.
1:02.5	It's not bigoted to say that we have too many asylum seekers who are abusing the system.
1:08.5	The type of anti-immigration language that at one time we would have heard from Nigel Farage and those further to the right has made its way into the mainstream.
1:18.5	I would love to be having a front page of the telegraph that a plane taking off to Rwanda. That's my dream.
1:26.5	By all accounts, Suella Bravaman is an impressive person.
1:31.5	She's highly educated, a lawyer and a former attorney general, and her rise through the Conservative Party has been meteoric.
1:41.5	Just seven years into her political career, she now holds one of the most influential jobs in the country.
1:49.5	And there's no doubt she's good at making headlines.
1:53.5	The Home Secretary Suella Bravaman is considering upgrading cannabis for a class B drug to a class A drug.
2:01.5	The UK Home Secretary, Bravaman, said Indian migrants currently make up the largest number of visa overstayers in the United Kingdom.
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