Former UK home secretary Suella Braverman has warned that Britain could “fall into the hands of Muslim fundamentalism” and become an Islamist state with nuclear weapons, similar to Iran.
Speaking at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC, Braverman claimed that the UK was at risk of seeing its legal system replaced by Sharia law and suggested that mass migration posed an “existential threat” to Western civilization.
Echoing US vice president JD Vance, Braverman referred to his recent comments that the UK could become “Vice-president JD Vance said at the national conservatism conference, at which I also spoke in the summer, that the UK was going to be the first Islamist nation with nuclear weapons. I don’t think he was joking.”
She questioned what would happen if Britain’s nuclear capabilities were to fall under a fundamentalist regime, while also warning that weak leadership was enabling the spread of Sharia law across the country.
“Regardless of whether one thinks that is a realistic outcome, which I do not, should we not have the courage to ask these questions” Braverman added.
She even discussed how, in the next two decades, how the UK and not China or Russia could be the greatest threat to the US.
A staunch supporter of former US President Donald Trump, Braverman hailed his re-election as a victory for freedom and the beginning of a conservative resurgence in the West.
“But now thankfully the tide is beginning to turn towards freedom. If the freedom revival fails in the US, we all lose and the loss will be irrevocable” she said. “If the US wins, we will all have freedom. But the US needs its allies.”
Braverman also pushed for a British version of Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement, stating that there was a need to “Make Britain Great Again.” Her remarks align with a broader trend of nationalist and right-wing rhetoric gaining traction within the UK’s conservative party, particularly as the country heads toward a general election.
Her warnings come at a time of growing ideological alignment between right-wing movements in the US and UK. With Britain’s political landscape in flux and Trump’s return to the White House shaping global conservatism, Braverman’s speech signals an attempt to push British politics further toward the nationalist right.
