UK minister Suella Braverman's Delhi uncle cautions niece over immigration rhetoric

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Suella Braverman has cautioned his niece about some of her language around immigration and urged her not to forget that she herself is a child of migrants. According to a report in 'The Times' on Saturday, Father Ayres Fernandes told the newspaper from India that he sees the need to clamp down on illegal immigration. However, the director of a retreat centre in Okhla said there was a need for more compassion towards refugees and asylum seekers.

«I only pray that she remembers that she herself was born to migrant parents, and therefore, she needs to be a little cautious when making such comments,» said Fernandes.
The priest, who grew up in Kenya with his four siblings, including Braverman's father, Christie Fernandes, is believed to be estranged from his brother. Formerly a director at the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India, the 73-year-old told the British newspaper that he and another family member had discussed Braverman's political posturing with a relative and speculated her hardline approach may be due to being backed by Conservative Party right-wingers.

«She's quite strong by herself, that much I know, she has her own thinking. But I believe that there is somebody backing her up to make such comments. But being a minister, holding such a position, maybe she should be a little cautious,» he said.

It comes after Braverman's Tory conference speech in Manchester earlier this week attracted criticism from within her own party ranks, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak also refusing to back her statement about a «hurricane» of migrants.
«The wind of change that carried my own parents across the globe in the 20th century was a mere gust compared to the hurricane that is coming. Because today, the option of moving