{"id":801601,"date":"2026-10-13T20:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T20:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/801601\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T20:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T20:42:09","slug":"suella-braverman-hits-back-at-disgraceful-cheltenham-festival-slap-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/801601\/","title":{"rendered":"Suella Braverman hits back at &#8216;disgraceful&#8217; Cheltenham Festival slap joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Braverman, who is also of Indian descent, posted on X on 22 September: &#8220;As I&#8217;ve said before, I&#8217;m not English.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m proud to be British. My family and ancestors have a link to Britain which spans centuries. But in no way are we English.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Braverman also asserted &#8220;Englishness is an ethnicity&#8221;, adding to call herself as such would deny her of her Asian heritage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In response to the comments made by Dame Meera, a spokesperson for Braverman referred &#8220;two sitting MPs [that have] have been killed&#8221; and to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cmkgknz19z7po\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">death of Ann Widdecome<\/a>. A man has been charged with her murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;For a comedian to think [about] joking about attacking a politician is disgraceful. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Mrs Syal is welcome to buy Mrs Braverman&#8217;s new book, &#8216;Patriot: Empire, Betrayal, and Hope&#8217; which discusses these questions in detail or to reach out to Mrs Braverman&#8217;s office directly.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Braverman, who is also of Indian descent, posted on X on 22 September: &#8220;As I&#8217;ve said before, I&#8217;m&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-801601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}