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The Owen Jones Podcast

Tory Denounces Suella Braverman's Racism

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

There can be no doubt: Suella Braverman's rhetoric is racist, and it's putting minorities at risk. Don't listen to me: listen to Tory Baroness Sayeeda Warsi who has spoken out: this is a damning indictment of a party infested with racism from the bottom up.

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This is a racist government. We've got to be clear about this,

0:34.8

got to be blunt about it. Now, the incident pushback backlash against saying this goes

0:40.1

something like this. How can you possibly say that? This is a diverse government with

0:45.2

people hailing from all different backgrounds. We've got the first Prime Minister

0:49.2

of Asian heritage. Labour have never managed that. And the Home Secretary herself,

0:54.0

Shrella Bravoman, her family were expelled from EDM in Uganda.

0:58.5

Now, we've got to be clear about this being a racist government, a racist government in

1:04.9

what it does and what it says. Now, to flesh this whole argument out,

1:10.8

given the government would point to the diversity within their ranks,

1:14.6

let's listen to Baroness Saidavasi, the most prominent conservative Muslim politician,

1:20.8

and she's actually the former chair of the Conservative Party. Let's just hear what she said.

1:24.4

I asked this question with a bit of discomfort. It's certainly not one I could answer,

1:28.6

but it's Shrella Bravoman's own ethnicity pertinent here. Do you think that a White

1:32.6

Home Secretary would have been able to make these comments with a degree of impunity?

1:39.6

I don't think any of my colleagues can use the pigment in the skin as some sort of a

1:46.4

defense mechanism to say they're not racist. You know, brown people can be racist too.

1:52.0

And are you calling the Home Secretary racist?

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