Braverman hits back at Badenoch over ‘public breakdown’ comments

Suella Braverman at the National Conservatism conference in Washington DC on Monday. She said the cabinet, including Kemi Badenoch, should take responsibility for the Tories’ collapse in vote share. Photograph: Dominic Gwinn/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock

Suella Braverman has attacked her fellow leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch for comments that were leaked from a shadow cabinet meeting, as one poll of grassroots members put Badenoch as the members’ favourite.

The poll also found half of Conservative grassroots members are in favour of a merger with Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.