Left is wrong to be ashamed of our history, says Braverman

THE Left is “ashamed” and “fearful” of Britain’s history when in fact it should celebrate “the ingenuity and the genius of the British people”, Suella Braverman, the Attorney General, has said.

Ms Braverman said she was proud of the British Empire and that her parents – who came to the UK in the 1960s from Mauritius and Kenya – had nothing but good to say about the “mother country”.

In an interview for this weekend’s Chopper’s Politics podcast, she said her parents “were born under the British Empire in the 1940s and they have nothing but good things to tell me about the mother country – not least the fact it was Britain that gave them opportunity and safety when they were young adults”.

She said that in Mauritius “the legal system, the language, some of the educational norms are all influenced heavily by the British Empire”, while in Kenya, “the administration, the civil service, the infrastructure, ports, railways, roads were brought by the British”.

“The British Empire was a force for good,” she said. “That is not to deny the awful things that went on because of the time period and cultural norms.”

She also took aim at the Left for having to apologise for being patriotic, saying: “It’s born out of a Left-wing apology for patriotism and an apology for Britain: ashamed of our history; fearful of our past; a belief in the decline-ism of Britain, not the ingenuity and the genius of the British people.”

Ms Braverman has been tipped as a future Tory leader, but declined to say if she wanted to succeed Mr Johnson. She said: “I want Boris to continue.”