Multiculturalism in Europe has not achieved its desired goals, according to Braverman.

Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary, delivered a keynote speech in Washington today to campaign for changes to global asylum rules. She argues that the current framework, created after World War II, is outdated and inadequate to deal with the millions of people it now covers.

Braverman argued that multiculturalism had "failed" in Europe, allowing people to live "parallel lives" and even "undermine the stability and threaten the security of our society". She pointed to a speech by former German chancellor Angela Merkel in 2010 where she said multiculturalism had failed, and that "not much has changed since".

She believes that the current levels of immigration to the UK and Europe in the last 25 years has been "too much, too quick, with too little thought given to integration and the impact on social cohesion".

Braverman went on to say that the nation state was one of humanity's great civilising forces, creating a shared identity and purpose that does not have to be based on race. She argued that patriotism can be a positive emotion that stirs people to heroism and kindness.

Finally, the Home Secretary hit back at critics, saying that concerns over immigration do not make one an "idiot" or a "bigot". She said that countries had collectively failed to reform the decades-old global asylum system out of a "fear of being branded a racist or illiberal". Braverman believes that any attempt to reform the Refugee Convention will be met with "epithets", and that the UK has a proud history of human rights that pre-dates the ECHR.

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