Rishi Sunak has much to learn from Suella Braverman

Amid all the heat and not much light thrown up by the ongoing debate on the illegal migration crisis, it is easy to pick out the voice of Home Secretary Suella Braverman. She is the Conservative who isn’t bluffing when the idea is raised of the UK withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights or even the United Nation Refugees Convention and running its own much tougher system.

While Rishi Sunak’s Downing Street operation specialises in generating ‘refuses to rule out’ headlines to counter a new round of failure to stop the boats, he shows no signs of preparing to ensure all Tory general election candidates are onside. So even in the event of a surprise Conservative win in 2024 there would be a sufficient phalanx of Tory MPs able to side with left-wing parties to block UK departure from the thicket of international treaties and bodies that prevent effective action on this issue.