It was a bold move for new woke times.
Beset by immigration paranoia on all sides,
our shambling government appoints
The son and daughter of the second generation
to lead the party and the policy on holding back the flood.

Who better, having mums and dads slipped
in below the radar, and made good?
You can’t be racist if you’re doing it to your own.
You are, to coin a controversial phrase,
Whiter than white.

So here’s to Mrs Braverman, whose job it is to steer this ship.
A Mauritius mum, a Goan Kenyan dad, a Jewish husband
who managed for Mercedes Benz. She is a friend to all.
Credentials open doors like credit cards.

So draw the line and banish cares.
Give those desperate to come the chance
to grow under African skies.
Their gain – and what is it to us?
So British. So very Daily Mail.

Like turning Sue Ellen to Suella –
we all can turn against a mother’s choice
– to travel to a foreign land, to steal,
a favourite name from trashy soaps.