Suella Braverman wrote an incendiary 1,318-word resignation letter which revealed a string of secrets from her time in Rishi Sunak’s Cabinet.
The former home secretary levelled point-blank parting shots at the Prime Minister’s character and leadership and delivered a harsh verdict on the Government’s chances of success in tackling the small boat crisis.
Here we look at what Suella Braverman wrote and explore the background to the main points she raised with the Prime Minister.
Suella Braverman was sacked as home secretary by Rishi Sunak on Monday, and in a blistering letter, the ex-Cabinet minister accused the Prime Minister of breaking a string of promises on migration, the Rwanda asylum deal, Brexit and gender protections.
Suella Braverman revealed a previously unknown written deal with Rishi Sunak, setting out areas in which she says he agreed to support her.
These included several specific policies on immigration, as well as on post-Brexit agreements and protecting biological sex and ‘same-sex spaces’.
She said that Rishi Sunak agreed to a ‘document with clear terms’ during his second leadership campaign in October last year, in exchange for her ‘pivotal’ support in his bid to take over from Liz Truss as Prime Minister. Suella Braverman then went on to accuse him of treating their deal with ‘equivocation, disregard and a lack of interest’.
Suella Braverman then confirmed for the first time that she wanted the Illegal Migration Act, passed earlier this year to go much further.
She believed it would be necessary to disapply human rights law in illegal migration cases, making it easier to deport people, but she said that Rishi Sunak insisted on ‘compromises’ in the legislation.
Suella Braverman argued that, even if the Government won its appeal over legal challenges to its Rwanda policy in the UK’s Supreme Court, ministers would ‘struggle’ to execute it.
For the first time, the former home secretary publicly acknowledges the Rwanda scheme would be fraught with problems, painting a significantly different picture from what she had said while in office.
Attempts to remove small boat migrants to Rwanda will be ‘far from secure’ against legal challenge and lead to ‘months’ of delay because of what she describes as Rishi Sunak’s ‘betrayal’ of their agreement.
Suella Braverman made the extraordinary assertion that the Prime Minister failed to respond to ‘multiple’ letters in which she proposed a backup plan to the Rwanda scheme.
Suella Braverman’s letter must have been a challenge for the leadership, but she’s also full of broken promises, and nothing much was accomplished under her tenure.
We should definitely be banning boat people from our country, whilst our homeless people live on the streets, it’s appalling that people who were born in this country are treated so abysmally.
It wasn’t even a resignation letter, she was ditched like a scrap of garbage, although she’s just as much of a snake as Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson was. It’s amusing how they all throw their toys out of their prams when playtime is over.
Rishi Sunak has got to go because he’s just not got any spine. We need powerful leadership in politics, not watered-down schmaltz.
What we need is a Prime Minister who will deliver to the needs of the people, and a system that works, not some of the time, but all of the time.
Perhaps we should give the Lib Dems a go for a change, perhaps then students will get their education back instead of wasting millions on wars that don’t concern us but claim that they do.
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