Suella Braverman’s rhetoric on grooming gangs is ‘racist’, says top Tory peer

‘It has got to stop’, says Baroness Warsi – who says ‘brown people can be racist too’

Home secretary Suella Braverman has been accused of using “racist rhetoric” by a top Conservative peer and former co-chair of the party.

Baroness Sayeeda Warsi hit out at a number of remarks the home secretary has made, and said it has “it has got to stop”.

The Tory peer did not specify which specific remarks she was referring to as racist, but highlighted Ms Braverman’s singling out British Pakistani men over concerns about grooming gangs and comments on small boats crossing the Channel.