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Braverman under fire after 'monstrous' Pride flag speech

July 09, 2024

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Evening Standard

SUELLA BRAVERMAN faced a backlash today after describing flying the Progress Pride flag as "monstrous" and blaming "liberal Conservatives" for the party suffering a record defeat at the general election.

- Rachael Burford

Braverman under fire after 'monstrous' Pride flag speech

The Tory leadership contender told the National Conservatism conference in Washington that the party had taken a "good hiding" after losing 251 seats at the vote on July 4 as it haemorrhaged votes to Nigel Farage's Reform UK. The former home secretary criticised the flying of the LGBTQ Pride flag to "show how liberal and progressive we are".

"We won a great majority in 2019 promising to do what the people wanted," she said. "We were going to use our Brexit freedoms and stop waves of illegal migrants. We were going to cut taxes. We were going to stop the lunatic woke virus. We did none of this.

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