Is Suella Braverman right to say multiculturalism has failed?

Aftershocks continue to be felt from Suella Braverman’s incendiary speech on immigration. In one of her most controversial remarks, she spoke of ‘an existential challenge for the political and cultural institutions of the West’ and declared that the ‘misguided dogma of multiculturalism’ has allowed people to come to Britain with the aim of ‘undermining the stability and threatening the security of society’. Some may wonder where such thoughts are leading, writes Sean O’Grady

Suella Braverman (PA Wire)

Aftershocks continue to be felt from Suella Braverman’s incendiary speech on immigration. In one of her most controversial remarks, she spoke of ‘an existential challenge for the political and cultural institutions of the West’ and declared that the ‘misguided dogma of multiculturalism’ has allowed people to come to Britain with the aim of ‘undermining the stability and threatening the security of society’. Some may wonder where such thoughts are leading.

Is Britain a multicultural society?

Much of it is, but the pattern varies enormously. Some parts of Britain haven’t changed much in decades. Other towns and cities have famously transformed: London, Slough, Leicester, Bradford and Birmingham among others. In recent years immigration, from eastern Europe has been relatively high in agricultural eastern England, in places such as Boston in Lincolnshire.