Oh dear. While no one has officially announced that they’re standing for the Tory leadership, prospective candidates are already rocking the boat. Mr S wrote on Wednesday that shadow showing secretary Kemi Badenoch had blasted ex-PM Rishi Sunak and said that former home secretary Suella Braverman seemed to be having a ‘very public’ nervous breakdown – and now Braverman’s other colleagues are turning on her too.
‘I wouldn’t be surprised if Suella defected to Reform in the next few months if she doesn’t get into the leadership race,’ one former Tory MP told the i newspaper. A current Conservative MP was a little more crude, commenting: ‘She’s lost all her mates and p****d off the gays…so I think she will b****r off to Reform. She has no chance of being leader and she thinks she is bigger than she is so what is there left for her?’ Golly. No love lost there, then…
The row comes after Braverman’s National Conservative conference speech in Washington, in which she blasted identity
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