Braverman’s comments came just a day after a man with far-right links threw bombs at a Dover immigration centre. On Saturday, counter-terrorism police announced they had found evidence that the attack was motivated by a “far-right” terrorist ideology. In October 2020, Braverman, then attorney general for England and Wales, was briefed in detail about how hate speech by senior politicians could lead to a terrorist risk. It followed an alleged terror plot against a law firm shortly after Priti Patel, then home secretary, had claimed that “activist lawyers” were frustrating the removal of failed asylum seekers. After the alleged incident, senior legal officials contacted the attorney general’s office to make clear their concern that inflammatory political rhetoric inspired the violence. In late October 2020, Braverman met in person with government lawyers, the lord chancellor and the chief justice to discuss the government’s “worrying increase in the use of ‘activist lawyer’ rhetoric”, an internal Bar Council newsletter reveals. At the time, Braverman was so concerned that she contacted Patel to ask if she would consider toning down her language. But last week, Braverman doubled down on her choice of language, also referring to “Albanian criminals” in parliament, prompting Edi Rama, the eastern European country’s prime minister, to accuse Braverman of using “purely xenophobic” words. A prominent attorney with knowledge of the October 2020 debates said Braverman was fully aware that her intervention last week in the immigration debate was inflammatory. Speaking on condition of anonymity, they said: “At the very least, it was reckless. At worst, he knows he is likely to incite attacks. It is either reckless or deliberate and has no concern for consequences. “The home secretary’s job is to ensure public safety, not to create a serious risk of harm to individuals.” Another senior legal source, who also asked not to be named, said: “Braverman was immediately informed of the dangers such language posed to members of the profession.” It can now be revealed that the day after Braverman used the word “invasion”, prominent far-right Marc Collett – who praised Adolf Hitler, was arrested for inciting racial hatred and called refugees “cockroaches” – promoted a message on Telegram. from a fellow white supremacist who said, “What’s happening at our border is an invasion, and no amount of pearls will change that.” Collet, founder of the far-right group Patriotic Alternative, said in a Telegram post the day after the Kent immigration center was bombed: “This attack is the unfortunate result of living in a multicultural tyranny imposed by a globalizing system that does not interested in anything. white people.” The term “globalist” has come under recent scrutiny, with a flurry of social media attacks on Rishi Sunak based on anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, linking the former banker to the false idea of a globalization conspiracy. Several prominent figures on right-wing news channel GB News, including Nigel Farage and Dan Wootton, also used the term after Grant Shapps, who is Jewish, briefly replaced Braverman as home secretary last month. Far-right elements also attacked immigration minister Robert Jenrick after he rejected the language used by Braverman, with one accusing him on the right-wing Traditional Britain Group’s Telegram channel of “treason” and referring to his Jewish faith alongside a picture of Pepe . Frog, the cartoon character adopted by the alt-right. On Friday, former skills minister Andrea Jenkins sparked further outrage by branding immigration lawyers “anti-British”. In a letter to Braverman, Jenkins wrote, “You were right to describe this as an invasion, and many of my constituents thank you for your honesty.” A Home Office spokesman said: “The Home Secretary’s first priority will always be to protect the security of the UK and the safety of its citizens.”