Braverman Tells UK Police to ‘Stick to Catching the Bad Guys,’ Not ‘Pandering to Identity Politics’

Braverman Tells UK Police to ‘Stick to Catching the Bad Guys,’ Not ‘Pandering to Identity Politics’
Home Secretary Suella Braverman speaking during the Conservative Party annual conference at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham on Oct. 4, 2022. Jacob King/PA Media
Lily Zhou
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The police should go back to “commonsense policing” instead of policing pronouns on Twitter or non-crime hate incidents, Home Secretary Suella Braverman said on Tuesday.

In her first major speech as home secretary, Braverman told the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham that public servants are distracted from “doing their real job” when the “poison [of identity politics] seeps into the public sphere.”