Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman has launched a scathing attack on a leaked Home Office document that labels concerns about two-tier policing as “an extremist narrative”.
Speaking to GB News, Braverman said she was “very concerned” about the Home Office’s stance, accusing them of “smearing millions of people for raising legitimate concerns about two tier policing, rape gangs and Islamist extremism”.
The document, seen by GB News courtesy of the think tank Policy Exchange, forms part of the Home Office’s Rapid Analytical Sprint initiative launched by Home Secretary Yvette Cooper in August 2024.
The document dismisses concerns about grooming gangs as an “alleged” problem that is “frequently exploit[ed]” by the far-right.
Suella Braverman hit out at a Home Office document that brands concerns about two-tier policing as a ‘right-wing extremist narrative’
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It focuses on other forms of “extremism”, including misogyny, violence against women and girls, “spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories” and the “online subculture called the manosphere”.
Speaking to GB News, Braverman warned that people “need to be free to voice these concerns” and have these conversations in the country.
The former Home Secretary highlighted what she called “profound problems of integration” and Islamist extremism.
“We have to be honest about what’s happening to our country,” she told GB News. “In some of our towns around the country Sharia law is being applied, where too many people have come to this country they don’t speak English.”
The Home Office document said that ‘claims of two-tier policing’ are a ‘right-wing extremist narrative’PAShe added: “The reality is there are too many people coming into our country who don’t embrace British culture, who don’t vow to support Britain and actually want to harm our people and destroy our country.”
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Braverman also criticised her own party’s record, saying the Conservatives had “failed the British people” on tackling net migration.
She explained: “Unfortunately [the Conservatives] failed the British people when it came to tackling net migration, whether it’s illegal migration we let our borders be open so posing a national security risk.
“Unfortunately we now know that some of those people who came in illegally to the country went on to commit heinous crimes against innocent British citizens.”
Braverman added: “But when it comes to legal migration there are many people – again not every single immigrant to this country – but there are too many people coming into this country who are committing crimes, who are undermining our values and who are harming our country.”
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Security Minister Dan Jarvis has since confirmed that ministers have rejected the advice contained in the document.
“Ministers have rejected this advice,” Jarvis said. “As we have said repeatedly Islamist extremism followed by far-right extremism are the biggest threats we face.”
He emphasised that ideology, particularly Islamist extremism and far-right extremism, remains central to their counter-extremism approach.
Jarvis added that alongside their main focus, more action is needed on “those drawn towards mixed ideologies and violent obsessed young people”, citing the Southport attack as an example.