She cited several Reform policies she was happy to support, including leaving the European Convention on Human Rights and a “very, very, very low and robust approach to migration”.
Mrs Braverman has refused to rule out defecting from the Tories to Reform UK.
Last week, she declined to say whether she would join Mr Farage’s party before refusing to confirm that she would still be a Tory MP at the end of this Parliament.
Speaking from Washington, Mrs Braverman, who believes the fact that her husband, Rael, defected to Reform is proof that a pact could work, said Mr Trump’s inauguration was a “seismic moment for the British Right”.
She said: “Donald Trump has not just shifted Overton window [a theory about what is politically acceptable], he’s shattered it. He’s made the unsayable mainstream and he’s made the radical much more acceptable to the moderates.
“That is of an undeniable value to British Right-wing politicians. There are many things that we can adopt going forward to hopefully emulate his success in a few years time in the United Kingdom.”
She urged the Tories to follow Mr Trump by “tearing up the rule book” and learn lessons from his “raw and unfiltered conservatism”, which she described as “unapologetically anti-woke”.
Mrs Braverman added: “I agree with Trump’s decision for the US to pull out of the WHO [World Health Organisation] and I think it’s something that the UK should do. I think that’s an example of where the Conservatives could lean into Trumpism.
“The WHO has got it wrong on the pandemic, has taken a draconian approach to anti-freedom measures and is conflicted by very concerning connections to China.”
She said she had always been “sceptical” of the Paris treaty and the net zero agenda, and when pushed, said that the UK should withdraw from the agreement as Mr Trump has done in an executive order immediately after the inauguration.
She criticised colleagues – some still serving MPs – who had taken the knee, confessed to being “beneficiaries of white privilege” and accepted that “trans women are women”, which she branded “errors of the past”.
‘Trump is the spirit we need’
Speaking the morning after the inauguration and having witnessed Mr Trump sign a series of executive orders in front of a large crowd at his victory parade, Mrs Braverman said: “One of Donald Trump’s first acts has been to make it official government policy that there are only two genders.
“On our watch [in the UK], children were subjected to irreversible gender reassignment surgery. So we need to radically change our stance and be robustly on the side of truth and biology and common sense. That’s an example of what the British Right can learn from the MAGA movement.”
She described Mr Trump as the “quintessential, anti-establishment people’s warrior”, adding: “And now he’s sitting in the White House. That’s the spirit that UK conservatives need to tap into.
“We need to be anti-establishment. We need to become radically anti-establishment and we do that by taking on the vested interests that have acted in a stranglehold on our decision making in the past.”
She went on to say that the Office of Budget Responsibility, which was created by Lord Cameron, needed to be scrapped because it was “anti-growth and pro-immigration”. She also complained that the UK had become “too squeamish to talk about multiculturalism”.
She branded multiculturalism a failure and said the Tories needed to follow Mr Trump in “speaking up for the justice of the regular guy”.
Mrs Braverman accused Tory colleagues of wrongly attacking Reform UK.
“I’m not one of these Tories who is going to denigrate the Reform Party for running Nuremberg rallies [as] some of my colleagues did during the general election. I’m not going to turn my nose up at those who vote Reform as racists or nut jobs. The people who are in Reform are largely conservatives who have lost patience with our party and that’s our fault,” she said.
Wearing a Republican red suit – she self-denigrately compared herself to a Virgin Atlantic air stewardess – Mrs Braverman was one of the most senior Tory MPs to be invited to the inauguration celebrations, which also included the Liberty ball.
She said it had been “unacceptable” for some senior Tories to have vocally declared support for Kamala Harris, singling out Lord Hague and Michael Gove for doing so.
Mrs Braverman was photographed arriving in DC, wearing a “Make America Great Again” baseball cap on the same flight as Laurence Fox, the actor turned controversial Right-wing political activist. She said this was by pure coincidence, along with the fact that they were staying at the same hotel as Emily Maitlis, the broadcaster who has been highly critical of Mr Trump, in Georgetown.
Mrs Braverman said her “heart goes out to all those bleeding heart liberals” who were upset at Donald Trump’s victory in November.
“I know she [Maitlis] is going through a tough time. It’s tough for Lefties of this world and we’ve got to do everything to support them through this.”
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