Only a few days out of a job, former Home Secretary Suella Braverman is already bolstering her fun-loving reputation. Her latest idea? Cancelling Christmas, at least for members of parliament. Following the Supreme Court judgment against the Rwanda deportation scheme that she championed in government, Braverman says MPs should pass emergency legislation over the Christmas break to get flights off the runway. “The Bill should be introduced by Christmas recess and Parliament should be recalled to sit and debate it over the holiday period,” she writes. When she was still in government, Braverman told this Diary column, “the Home Secretary never goes on holiday”, so it’s an easy ask for her. Will colleagues feel similarly nonchalant about festive voting? Writing in the Telegraph, Braverman says time is of the essence because stopping refugee arrivals on small boats is “an emergency” and should be treated as such.
