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    UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman wows some Conservatives and alarms others with hardline stance

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Britain’s Home Secretary Suella Braverman railed against unauthorized migrants, human-rights laws and “woke” critics of her hardline policies Tuesday as she tried to secure her place as the flag-bearer of the Conservative Party’s […] More

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    Surprising that Human Rights Act wasn’t called ‘Criminal Rights Act,’ says Suella Braverman

    Suella Braverman suggested the Human Rights Act should have been called the “criminal rights act” during a speech at the Tory party conference on Tuesday, 3 October.”Our country has become enmeshed in a dense net of international rules that were designed for another era. And it is Labour that turbocharged their impact by passing the misnamed Human Rights Act,” the home secretary told an audience in Manchester.“I’m surprised they didn’t call it the ‘Criminal Rights Act’,” she added.Ms Braverman used her anti-immigration speech to claim that Britain faces a “hurricane” of migrants. More

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    Watch: Tory heckler attempts to interrupt Suella Braverman speech

    A Conservative member of the London Assembly was escorted out of the Tory party conference after he appeared to heckle Suella Braverman’s speech on Tuesday, 3 October.Andrew Boff was led away by police after declaring “there’s no such thing as gender ideology” while the home secretary was speaking about “those who fail to conform” are “chased out of their jobs for saying that a man can’t be a woman” when “the left gets the upper hand.”Ms Braverman continued with her speech after Mr Boff was led away. More

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    Trans women to be banned from female NHS wards, as Steve Barclay insists ‘Tories know what a woman is’

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Transgender women are to be banned from female NHS wards, as health secretary Steve Barclay insisted that the Tories “know what a woman is”. The health secretary promised in his conference speech to restore “common sense” to […] More

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    Watch live: Suella Braverman speaks at Tory party conference

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Watch live as Suella Braverman speaks at the annual Tory party conference in Manchester on Tuesday, 3 October. The Home Secretary is expected to use her speech to promise a ban on sex […] More