Suella Braverman has criticised the Conservative Party’s record in office, arguing the party allowed immigration to “spiral out of control” and supported “farcical gimmicks” like the proposed smoking bans.

Speaking over Zoom to the Popcon event, the former home secretary started by acknowledging the scale of the party’s defeat. She said Conservatives had “lost across all types of demographics”.

Criticising the party’s missed opportunities while in government, she said: “We were going to use our Brexit freedoms to stop the waves of illegal migrants landing on our shores; we were going to cut taxes; we were going to lower overall illegal migration; we were going to stop the lunatic woke virus making its way through the British state.”

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