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Tory MP burns Braverman

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Dogs bark, cows moo and the Home Office leaks like a sieve. Unfortunately, this time the finger of suspicion has fallen on Suella Braverman, the Secretary of State for the most malfunctioning ministry in all of Whitehall. Braverman has reportedly been dubbed ‘leaky Sue’ after repeatedly sending official documents to her personal email – the reason which forced her resignation from government 12 days ago.

On one occasion she tried to use her personal account to send a draft written ministerial statement to her parliamentary patron Sir John Hayes – but, in her words, ‘I entered the incorrect email address for his secretary unintentionally and unknowingly.’ That, er, is something of an understatement: Braverman had actually emailed a staff member in the office of Andrew Percy, a Tory backbencher and vocal critic of Boris Johnson.

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