The Home Secretary has claimed that white people should not feel any sense of ‘collective guilt’ over their historic role in slavery.
Suella Braverman made the comments at a right wing conference yesterday. She said that people should not be blamed for things that happened before they were born.
According to The Mail Online:
Ms Braverman, the daughter of immigrants, lashed out at the legal immigration policy of Rishi Sunak’s government – in which she is a senior minister – and demanded it be tightened to favour domestic workers.
And in comments that will further fuel suggestions she is maneuvering to eventually replace Mr Sunak as a right wing challenger, she used her London speech to fire heavy artillery in the culture war.
To a receptive audience – apart from two protesters who interrupted her – she mocked Keir Starmer over gender recognition, saying he could be ‘Labour’s first female prime minister’.
She also said that multiculturalism was ‘a recipe for communal disaster’ and doubled down on controversial remarks last month about grooming gangs being ‘all almost all British-Pakistani’.
Addressing the renewed focus on the UK’s role in slavery since the start of the Black Lives Matter campaign, she told the National Conservatism Conference: ‘I think the left can only sell its vision for the future by making people feel terrible about our past.
‘White people do not exist in a special state of sin or collective guilt.’
She added: ‘Nobody should be blamed for things that happened before they were born.
‘The defining feature of this country’s relationship with slavery is not that we practised it, but that we led the way in abolishing it. We should be proud of who we are.’
