Sacked ministers seldom have nice things to say about the boss but Suella Braverman’s letter to Rishi Sunak is a ferocious assault on the Prime Minister, his character and his style of leadership. If she’d taken a flamethrower to the man he’d have come away less severely burned. She claims they had a deal – a written agreement – that he would pursue certain policies in No. 10 in return for her backing him as leader following the Liz Truss debacle.
According to the former Home Secretary, Sunak undertook to cut legal migration by tightening the rules on international students and driving up work-visa salary thresholds; to legislate ‘notwithstanding clauses’ so that efforts to stop the boats couldn’t be scuppered by the Human Rights Act or the European Convention on Human Rights; to deliver the original versions of the Northern Ireland Protocol and Retained EU Law bills; and to hand schools ‘unequivocal statutory guidance’ that recognised biological sex, single-sex spaces and parents’ right to know what their children are being taught.
Braverman concludes that Sunak has ‘no appetite for doing what is necessary’
Braverman claims to have repeatedly requested meetings, prepared legal guidance, and drafted policies that could have helped deliver these goals.
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