Did Suella Braverman run her latest op-ed by No. 10 for approval? That was the question asked at the end of last year when the then Home Secretary wrote an inflammatory article accusing the Met of being biased towards left-wing protesters. The answer then was that she hadn’t, and she lost her job (for a second time).
This time round, nobody needs to bother to ask the question. She doesn’t have a job. No. 10 will have been dismayed but probably unsurprised to read her article in the Telegraph yesterday in which she blamed the Prime Minister for the catastrophic local election results. She implied he should have been dumped months ago and warned that the general election will be even more of a rout if the party doesn’t immediately do the things Suella Braverman has always wanted it to do.
You don’t need a politician to have fancy prose, but you do want to feel that there’s an intelligent mind at work
Who knows: perhaps she’s right. But
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