The Suella Braverman One
Political Thinking with Nick Robinson
BBC
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In the week the government introduced tough, controversial new rules on stopping illegal immigrants entering the UK, Nick Robinson talks to the home secretary, Suella Braverman, about her father's journey to Britain while fleeing persecution in Kenya, how her mum's admiration for Margaret Thatcher introduced her to the Conservative Party and how she, as the wife of a Jewish man, feels when people compare her policies with those of 1930s Germany.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.5 | What makes the daughter of immigrants willing to risk the wrath of Liberal Britain? |
| 0:11.3 | By warning that we face an invasion of migrants that up to a hundred million could come here, |
| 0:17.0 | that those who oppose her plan to stop the boats aren't real patriots, indeed, that they're |
| 0:24.7 | betraying Britain? |
| 0:26.4 | The Home Secretary-Suella Breveman is loved by some for the start she's taking. |
| 0:31.9 | She's loathed by others. |
| 0:34.5 | My guest on political thinking has toured the new studios all week. |
| 0:39.9 | This is not another news interview. |
| 0:43.3 | It is not an interrogation about that policy. |
| 0:47.3 | It is a conversation as this whole series is about what shapes her political thinking, |
| 0:53.7 | what shapes her views, what shapes her values. |
| 0:58.0 | So, Well, Hello, Breveman, Home Secretary, thank you very much for joining me on political thinking. |
| 1:01.6 | Thank you, Nick. |
| 1:02.6 | You have had a lively week, haven't you? |
| 1:05.7 | Do you relish the rouse you caused? |
| 1:07.5 | Do you like the controversies? |
| 1:09.4 | Do you like the smell of political gunpowder? |
| 1:12.1 | Well, listen, I think it comes with the territory of being home secretary, of fronting up a policy |
| 1:19.5 | relating to migration. |
| 1:22.2 | The issues at the Home Office are very emotive. |
| 1:25.0 | They relate to security and safety, people's wellbeing, particularly migration. |
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