Nigel Farage has been strongly defended by Suella Braverman after his Substack comments describing the UK as a “two-tier state against white people”.
Speaking to GB News, Reform UK’s education spokesperson faced questions from presenter Emily Carver about the remarks. When asked whether she thought Farage had gone “a bit far”, Braverman rejected the suggestion entirely.
She said she believed he was “absolutely right”, arguing it is wrong to downplay the issue given a case where a young man was “brutally killed” and, in her view, police treated a dying person “harshly and unfairly” because of race. She added that officers appeared to assume the victim was the aggressor and accused him of racism while following official guidance.
Braverman went on to argue the incident was not isolated, claiming the problem is “systemic” within UK institutions. She said it reflected official policy rather than individual error, pointing to what she described as guidance from Hampshire Police that encouraged different treatment based on race. She also said certain phrases from the case would be remembered as examples of unfairness and insisted the situation was “not a one-off”.
Pressed by Carver on whether responsibility lay with individual officers rather than a wider “two-tier” system, Braverman pushed back, insisting the issue runs deeper and is embedded in policy. She argued that no group should be treated more or less favourably because of race, gender, or other protected characteristics.
She also turned to Reform UK’s stance on equality law, saying the party would keep workplace protections but scrap what she described as a wider “DEI industry” that has developed around the Equality Act.
According to Braverman, this has led to practices such as “race action plans” in policing and recruitment schemes that she claims disadvantage white applicants. She argued this amounts to unfair treatment and “anti-white racism”, saying such practices should end.
Braverman concluded that the solution is to dismantle what she called the legal framework enabling these trends, arguing it has built up over decades under successive governments. She said Reform UK was the only party willing to address the issue directly, adding the position was set out months earlier, not just in response to recent events.
On a separate case involving a stabbing in Belfast, she said the suspect, an asylum seeker, should never have been allowed into the country, describing it as a failure of previous government policy and one of the reasons she left the Conservative Party.
