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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Sophie Wingate

Downing Street distances PM from email attacking civil service ‘blob’

PA Media

Downing Street has distanced Rishi Sunak from an email attacking civil servants that was sent to Tory supporters in the Home Secretary’s name.

Suella Braverman has insisted she did not sanction the widely criticised message, sent to thousands of Conservative Party members, which blamed “an activist blob of left-wing lawyers, civil servants and the Labour Party” for blocking previous attempts to tackle illegal migration.

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