Outrage as Suella Braverman brands Pride flag flying ‘a horrible political campaign’
The IndependentSign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In a speech to burnish her leadership credentials with the Tory right, the ex-home secretary said the Progress version of the Pride flag represented “a horrible political campaign I disagreed with” and described trying to have it removed from her Marsham Street office. Get over it.” open image in gallery Braverman said the Progress flag represented ‘a horrible political campaign I disagreed with’ And Labour MP Stella Creasy said: “Everyone has to stand up to this bile polluting our politics, not just Tories who get vote in contest, because equality benefits and liberates us all.” Ms Braverman has also faced criticism from her own party, with former candidate and LBC presenter Iain Dale tweeting: “What a disgusting speech. I couldn’t even get the flag of a horrible political campaign I disagreed with taken down from the roof of the government department I was supposed to be in charge of.” As the row raged, historian and TV presenter David Starkey apeared to fan the flames, telling a PopCon gathering in central London that it was “deranged” that a Conservative prime minister would cite enabling same-sex marriage as his greatest achievement. open image in gallery The former home secretary is widely expected to run for the leadership At the same event, Ms Braverman hit out at an ex-Tory MP who compared Reform UK events to Hitler’s Nuremberg rallies and said her party was “weak” and “squeamish” over immigration.
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