This is the moment Suella Braverman was accused by a black man of being ‘racist against herself’ after claiming she is not English despite being born in Britain.
Reform UK’s education spokesperson told the BBC‘s Question Time that she is ‘British of Asian ethnicity’ rather than English, because of her family’s Asian heritage.
But the former Conservative home secretary was accused by a black member of the audience in Tottenham, north London, of ‘reinforcing the racist argument’.
The 54-year-old man told Mrs Braverman he would be ‘very rich’ if he had a penny for every time he had been ‘told I’m not English
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