Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman has lashed out at Prime Minister Rishi Sunak after her sacking. Mrs Braverman was sacked as home secretary on Monday following a series of controversial episodes.
These included an unauthorised newspaper article criticising the way police have handled pro-Palestinian “mobs”, and also describing homelessness as a “lifestyle choice”. Her sacking coincided with the shock return of former Prime Minister David Cameron to the cabinet.
Ms Braverman said Mr Sunak will likely fail on his pledge to “stop the boats”, regardless of whether the Government wins or loses the Rwanda ruling in the Supreme Court. The sacked Home Secretary wrote that if they lose the Prime Minister will have “wasted a year” on the Illegal Migration Act “only to arrive back at square one”.
“Worse than this, your magical thinking – believing that you can will your way through this without upsetting polite opinion – has meant you have failed to prepare any sort of credible ‘Plan B’,” she said.
She said she posed her own “credible” back-up plan – without which she said there is “no hope of flights this side of an election” in the event of a court defeat – but received no reply.
“I can only surmise that this is because you have no appetite for doing what is necessary, and therefore no real intention of fulfilling your pledge to the British people.,” she went on.
Even in the event of a Supreme Court victory, Mrs Braverman said the Government “will struggle to deliver our Rwanda partnership in the way that the public expects”.
She said the Act is “far from secure against legal challenges” and will “leave us vulnerable to being thwarted yet again by the Strasbourg Court”.
She also accused Mr Sunak of responding to pro-Palestinian protests in a way that is “uncertain, weak and lacking in the qualities of leadership that this country needs”.
In her letter to the Prime Minister, the former Home Secretary continued: “I have become hoarse urging you to consider legislation to ban the hate marches and help stem the rising tide of racism, intimidation and terrorist glorification threatening community cohesion.
“Britain is at a turning point in our history and faces a threat of radicalisation and extremism in a way not seen for 20 years. I regret to say that your response has been uncertain, weak and lacking in the qualities of leadership that this country needs. Rather than fully acknowledge the severity of this threat, your team disagreed with me for weeks that the law needed changing.”
Her letter also alluded to a deal she apparently struck with Mr Sunak in the leadership contest that saw him coronated as Prime Minister when his opponents dropped out. She said she agreed to come back as home secretary – having been forced out by Liz Truss – on “certain conditions” agreed on reducing legal migration and taking action on the European Convention on Human Rights’ effect on small boats legislation.
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