Suella Braverman has been accused of daring No 10 to sack her with provocative comments designed to cement her position as the rightwing frontrunner to succeed Rishi Sunak as Conservative leader. Former ministers and Tory insiders claim that the home secretary is deliberately making unauthorised statements on homelessness, demonstrations and multiculturalism to woo the party’s hard-right base.
That anyone could consider her statements as 'hard right' shows just how far the Tory Party has drifted to the soft left under Johnson, May, and Sunak.
In fact, this is less a criticism of Braverman, as they claim, than of the weak PM they Tories installed...
One former minister told the Guardian: “It is as if she wants to be fired so she can get on with a leadership bid … If she is tied to the government for too long, she will have to carry some of the blame for Rishi’s failure – and few people think he will win a general election outright.”
They are almost certainly right.
Another former Tory frontbencher said Braverman’s decision to make statements that have not been signed off by No 10 shows that Sunak is weak.
I wonder if that same frontbencher voted him in, and is now regretting it?
4 comments:
She's not the first to be sacked for being right. The name Enoch Powell springs to mind.
They really are missing Dominic Cummings.
But probably best in the long run to let this clown circus train speed towards the tunnel entrance painted on the cliff face.
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Sunak and his non-Tories are absolutely taking the piss now. The fix has always been in for a return to the EU and Cameron's return is yet another step on that road.
Jaded
"She's not the first to be sacked for being right. The name Enoch Powell springs to mind."
Indeed!
"They really are missing Dominic Cummings."
They're missing something, for sure...
"The fix has always been in for a return to the EU and Cameron's return is yet another step on that road."
I fear you're right.
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