The blue-collar Conservative Common Sense Group’s event at Tory conference yesterday evening felt more like a celebrity visit than a political fringe. Following her conference speech, Home Secretary Suella Braverman was met with chants of ‘BRA-VER-MAN’ and rapturous applause from her Tory fanbase as she came on stage at the event, hosted by the Daily Express.
Excited cheers then broke out as she made her big announcement: that asylum hotels – currently costing the government around £8 million a day – would soon be closed down.
In her speech, the Home Secretary made a quick dig at Nicola Sturgeon’s gender reforms before asserting that she backed Rishi and was confident the Tories could still win the next election:
‘Let me also say that we can win the next election. Because Rishi Sunak is a common-sense conservative. Leading our country effectively, passionately, energetically displaying and setting out an inspiring vision of how great our country can be stabilising the economy, ensuring that long term decisions are being made in the interests of common sense Conservatives and the British people, whether it’s on net zero, whether it’s on taking on Nicola Sturgeon on her gender reforms.’
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