Debating the 'success' of multiculturalism misses the point – it's simply part of life in Britain today

By Kieran Connell, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary British History, Queen's University Belfast

Suella Braverman – the home secretary in one of the UK’s most ethnically diverse cabinets in history – has declared that multiculturalism has failed. Speaking to an American think tank, Braverman spoke out against what she called a “misguided dogma” that has “allowed people to come to our society and live parallel lives in it”.

I am a historian of multiculturalism, and grew up in Balsall Heath, an area of Birmingham with a decades-long…

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