Suella Braverman Sparks Outcry By Declaring 'I'm Not English'

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Former Tory home secretary Suella Braverman is now Reform UK spokesperson for education, skills and equality. Suella Braverman has sparked an online backlash by declaring she is "not English". The former Tory home secretary, who was born in Harrow, raised in Wembley, went to school in Brent, studied at Cambridge University and lives in Hampshire, would only say she is "proud to be British".

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• How are children who hear this meant to feel?" But Braverman, who defected to Reform UK last year and is now the party's education spokesperson, insisted that Englishness is "an ethnicity" and therefore she...
• Her comments came after former prime minister Rishi Sunak, who put Braverman in his cabinet, rejected suggestions that only white people can be English.
• Writing in the Sunday Times, he said: "If you are born and brought up in England and view it as home, what are you other than English?
• "Attempting to deny people their Englishness or Britishness because of the colour of their skin is a recipe for alienation, for a two-tier society.

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In a post on X, she said: "As I've said before, I'm not English. "My family and ancestors have a link to Britain which spans centuries.