Rishi Sunak refuses to say if he backs Suella Braverman multiculturalism remarks

(BBC) Rishi Sunak has repeatedly declined to say if he agrees with his home secretary’s view that multiculturalism has “failed” in the UK.

In a speech on Tuesday, Suella Braverman said multiculturalism was a “misguided dogma” which had allowed people to “live parallel lives.”

Asked if she was wrong, the PM told the BBC the UK had “done an incredible job of integrating people into society.”

However, he added that “there’s always more progress we can make.”

Addressing a US think tank in Washington earlier this week, Mrs Braverman said: “Multiculturalism makes no demands of the incomer to integrate.”

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