‘There’s a list of great betrayals the Conservative Party committed on the British people’ says Suella Braverman
SUELLA Braverman has hit back at criticism from Kemi Badenoch, saying “there’s a list of great betrayals the Conservative Party committed on the British people”.
She also said she was opposed to any electoral pact between Reform UK and the Tories and said the Conservatives “should never be anywhere near power again”.
Braverman told GB News: “Kemi loves to throw puerile insults at people. I’ve been living with it for quite a few years in the Conservative Party. It’s one of the reasons why I left.
“I’m very proud of the things I achieved as Home Secretary, given the very challenging situation that the Conservative Party was in. I set up the grooming gangs task force. It led to hundreds of arrests and safeguarded thousands of girls.
“I delivered a record number of police officers on our streets, and I passed laws to deal with militant eco-protesters and strengthen our national security. So those things that I achieved as Home Secretary, I’ll be proud to stand by.
“What I’d failed on was to cut visas because the Conservative Prime Minister and Conservative colleagues, I’m afraid, including Kemi, objected to my calls to cut visas. What I failed to do was to persuade a Conservative Prime Minister and a Conservative cabinet to leave the European Convention on Human Rights to stop the boats because they failed to do it.
“What I failed to do was to persuade my conservative ministerial colleagues to proscribe the IRGC, because none of them wanted to do it, because they were cowards. They lacked the backbone, and they utterly failed.”
She added: “Instead of criticising those of us who tried and struggled to make those changes in government, Kemi Badenoch and the Conservative Party should be apologising to the Jewish community today, because that attack on those ambulances could have been avoided.
“The rise in antisemitism could have been avoided, the hatred that we see on our streets could have been avoided, had a Conservative government taken the action to prescribe the IRGC and ban the hate marches when they had the power and the opportunity to do it.”
Asked if Reform UK could form an electoral pact with the Tories, she said: “The problem is, I cannot trust the Conservative Party. You’ve just seen in this episode in the last few days, that they are unwilling to even take responsibility for their failure on extremism and the IRGC.
“There’s a list of great betrayals the Conservative Party committed on the British people when it was in government and I, myself as a Conservative Member of Parliament, found myself physically incapable of believing a word the Conservative Party was saying, and that’s why I left for Reform, because of its credibility, bravery and authenticity.
“So I personally am dead against any kind of deal with the Conservative Party. I don’t trust them, and it should never be anywhere near power again.”
