The lead candidate to be put in charge of stopping illegal boat migration to the UK previously said he is proud to be “woke” and also chastised Suella Braverman for using “horrific” rhetoric to describe migrants.
Ex-counterterror chief Neil Basu is set to become the UK’s Border Security Commander under the new Labour government.
But Basu’s previous behavior suggests he is a leftist and may have little enthusiasm for limiting illegal mass migration.
Responding to former Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s speech where she said it was her “dream” to see illegal immigrants deported (as they should be under the law), Basu reacted with fury.
“I find some of the commentary coming out of the Home Office inexplicable,” said Mr Basu.
“It is unbelievable to hear a succession of very powerful politicians who look like this talking in language that my father would have remembered from the 1968. It’s horrific,” he added.
Basu also said that as head of counter-terrorism, he had to deal with some “disgusting and very real” threats from the “far-right” and that diversity and inclusion were “two of the most important things for policing.”
“Are you alert to issues of racial and social justice? Yes, I am. And if that is the definition of woke, I’ll wear it as a bumper sticker every day of the week,” he said.
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