in the mediterranean sea. it comes days after the prime minister, promised harsher prison sentences for human traffickers. britain s prime minister rishi sunak and chancellorjeremy hunt will hold talks with the governor of the bank of england in response to the collapse of silicon valley bank uk. you re watching bbc news. now it s time for political thinking with nick robinson. what makes the daughter of immigrants willing to risk the wrath of liberal britain by warning that we face an invasion of migrants, that up to 100 million could come here, that those who oppose her plan to stop the boats aren t real patriots? indeed, that they re betraying britain. the home secretary, suella braverman, is loved by some for the stance she s taking. she s loathed by others. my guest on political thinking has toured the news studios all week. this is not another news interview. it is not an interrogation about that policy. it is a conversation, as this whole series is, about what shapes
no, but the debate isn t about measures. ..in history. even gary lineker, you always, when you re asked about gary lineker, refer to the measure. he wasn t talking about measures. he was talking about language. again, i would disagree. i think what happens, and what i m seeing is that we re seeing a rerun of brexit. brexit supporters were typecast as being racist, and bigoted and extremist. it s a losing technique. it s not worked. ok, but it takes two to polarise. the other thing that seems to me that comes through your story, your immigrant story, your parent s story is patriotism. so, your dad comes from kenya. he s of indian origin. your mum comes from mauritius to work in the nhs. she s of indian origin, she s a nurse. and you have said in the past, i m ferociously proud of britain. it s a very braverman word. ferociously proud. why ferociously proud? oh, because i admire, i deeply and profoundly admire what britain has done for the world over centuries.
warnings that school places were under threat. of course, britain was different. of course you re not enoch powell. but you understand why some people hear the echoes in the language used and shiver. well, i ve been thinking about this this week, actually, in light of the debate that we re in. and what it reminds me of is the brexit debate. and what i see is the left, and it s generally the left, they resort to, you know, framing the position that we re taking on migration, which i describe as firm but compassionate, as being far right, as being extremist, as being racist. and they they do that in quite a lazy way. i don t think there s any comparison to our measures to what happened. no, but the debate isn t about measures. ..in history.