Diversity and Anglosphere: Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman run a familiar show
One day in the life of a country can be both revealing and dispiriting — about the changelessness of power, who exercises it and why.
The very day (March 13) that Britain’s home secretary (or interior minister) put forward a controversial new asylum and migration law, the country’s prime minister vowed to stand “ shoulder to shoulder “ alongside his US and Australian counterparts to protect peace in the Indo-Pacific, thereby renewing the Anglosphere’s unique alliance.
Britain’s home secretary, Suella Braverman, is the daughter of Uma and Christie Fernandes, both of Indian origin, who emigrated to Britain in the 1960s from Mauritius and Kenya respectively. She is the second Asian woman to serve as home secretary (after Priti Patel), as well as being the second person of Indian ethnicity (after Ms Patel) and the third person of Asian heritage (after Ms Patel and Sajid Javed) to serve as home secretary.
The prime minister, Rishi Sunak, was …
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