"Former home secretary says collaboration across the Right is ‘the formula to beat Labour’ and urges the Conservatives to copy Trump’s spirit"
Telegraph: 22nd January 2025: Article reporting Suella Braverman MP comments in Washington on the need to unite to defeat Labour
"During a trip to Washington DC for Donald Trump’s inauguration... She praised the president’s brand of “unfiltered conservatism” and said the Tories needed to copy his success at making the “unsayable mainstream”...
... She said “I like Nigel Farage… there isn’t space in British politics for two conservative parties.”... “We do need to unite the Right. We need to come to some kind of accommodation. I don’t know what the precise form looks like – whether that is a merger, whether that is a coalition...
...She cited several Reform policies she was happy to support...
...Mrs Braverman, who believes the fact that her husband, Rael, defected to Reform is proof that a pact could work...
She said Mr Trump’s inauguration was a “seismic moment for the British Right”... “Donald Trump has not just shifted Overton window [a theory about what is politically acceptable], he’s shattered it. He’s made the unsayable mainstream and he’s made the radical much more acceptable"...
"There are many things that we can adopt going forward to hopefully emulate his success in a few years time in the United Kingdom.”...“We need to become radically anti-establishment and we do that by taking on the vested interests that have acted in a stranglehold on our decision making in the past.”
She also said the Office of Budget Responsibility... needed to be scrapped because it was “anti-growth and pro-immigration”.