Time will tell whether the woman who helped Rishi Sunak gain the ultimate prize of running the country is the Achilles heel that could also undermine him. Suella Braverman’s swift return to the Home Office has unsurprisingly dominated the Ri-shuffle headlines this week. A new PM talks of integrity, then swiftly recalls the Cabinet minister who had been removed days earlier for breaking the ministerial code.
A less contentious minister would have garnered fewer headlines. But Braverman, the 42-year-old MP for Fareham, is a divisive figure, loved by the Right but viewed with suspicion by centrist voters who felt deeply uncomfortable at footage of her gleefully talking up her “dream” and “obsession” of sending migrants to Rwanda during the Conservative Party conference.
