Braverman turns on Jenrick

All is not well in the Conservative party. Tory leadership hopeful Suella Braverman has turned on fellow MP Robert Jenrick in a scathing attack on her rival. The former home secretary previously worked closely with the ex-minister while their party was in government – but was this week keen to draw up dividing lines between the pair at Washington’s National Conservatism conference.

Braverman blasted her former colleague for coming ‘from the Left of the party’, slamming Jenrick as a Remainer who ‘was a big, kind of centrist, Rishi supporter’. Burn…

The ex-home secretary went on:

I remember talking to him about leaving the ECHR a year ago, and him looking horrified by that prospect. It’s really good that he’s moving in a different direction. Wasn’t the story that he was sent by Rishi to keep an eye on me in the Home Office?

Talk about shots fired. Jenrick left his immigration minister post in December last year because he believed his party’s Rwanda plan did not go far enough.