How much trouble is Suella Braverman in? Rishi Sunak’s decision to re-appoint her as Home Secretary less than a week after she was forced to resign over a security breach has proved to be the major upset of the reshuffle. Since then, opposition parties have gone on the attack with some Tory politicians also raising concerns about Braverman’s suitability for the role.
Former Conservative party chairman Jake Berry went public last week to say that Cabinet Secretary Simon Case had been deeply worried by the incident which saw Braverman share a confidential document on immigration with an MP using her personal email. He said Braverman – who has developed the nickname ‘leaky Su’ in the media – was responsible for ‘multiple breaches of the ministerial code’.
In a bid to draw a line under the incident, Braverman has today given her version of events. In a letter to the home affairs select committee chair, Dame Diana Johnson, Braverman apologised for the breach and admitted to having used her personal email for official work not once – but six times.
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