Suella Braverman slams ‘woke’ police: ‘We don’t pay them to dance with drag queens’
Suella Braverman, Home Secretary and Conservative MP for Fareham, has once again slammed what she describes as “woke” policing.
Content warning: This story includes topics that could make some readers feel uncomfortable and/or upset. Her comments in the Commons on 19 September appeared to criticise how Pride events are monitored by the force and came mere weeks after she ordered a review into “political activism in police”.
Nick Fletcher, another Conservative MP, began by sharing his belief that police would solve more crimes “if they started putting more bobbies on the beat and stopped promoting unscientific ideologies”. “My honourable friend is quite right,” Braverman responded. “We pay the police to fight crime.
Whether that’s a focus on anti-social behaviour, the nuisance bikers or burglaries, as he’s mentioned.” She added: “They are there to keep people safe.
