The debacle concerning Suella Braverman makes the front page of most papers today after No. 10 confirmed that the Home Secretary had failed to get sign off for a Times op-ed on police bias published earlier this week. Despite Downing Street using Thursday’s lobby briefing to say that Braverman and her team had ignored a No. 10 request to tone down the piece, the Prime Minister has said he still has confidence in his Home Secretary. Given several Tory MPs and anonymous government ministers have joined in with calls from opposition parties for Sunak to sack Braverman, the question in Westminster is how long this current position can hold.
Jeremy Hunt has become the latest Cabinet minister to distance himself from Braverman’s comments. This morning he said that the Home Secretary’s words ‘are not words that I myself would have used’.
As for how the next few days pan out, today Downing Street is expected to look into the process around which the op-ed came to be published despite No.
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