of jehovah s witnesses. the uk chancellor, jeremy hunt, has spoken to the governor of the bank of england about silicon valley bank uk, which is heading for insolvency after the failure of its parent company in the us. you are watching bbc news. now, politicalthinking 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 her political thinking. what shapes her views? what shapes her values? suella braverman, th
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
Of people being betrayed. ofjobs under threat, warnings that communities couldn t cope. warnings that school places were under threat. of course, britain was different. of course you re not enoch powell. but do 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.
Yeah. he has spoken to me about his experiences in 1960s, early 70s london, and it s fair to say our country s made huge progress. he s told me about a story when he was in the pub with his friends as a young man upon his arrival and being chased down the road by skinheads. and i can imagine the language they used. yeah, exactly. the p word. right. and he s been on the receiving end of verbal abuse. and i think about my experience growing up in london in the 1980s and onwards and not coming across anything near as aggressive, and intimidating and harassing. and so i really feel a sense of pride about race relations in the united kingdom and where we are as a nation, and how we re comfortable. that year that he fled kenya and came here was the year of enoch powell s river of blood speech. there were warnings of people being betrayed. ofjobs under threat, warnings that communities couldn t cope.