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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rowena Mason Whitehall editor

How Suella Braverman went from darling of the Tory right to outcast

Suella Braverman wears a teal green dress. She is pictured from the side and her hair is flying out behind her as she walks. In the background is a grey brick wall
One senior Tory said Braverman’s allies had deserted her because ‘her biggest problem is taking advice’. Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA

Suella Braverman’s fall from darling of the Conservative right to political outcast has been sharp and brutal.

One minute, she was the favoured future leader of MPs on the pro-Brexit wing of the party. The next, she had been swapped out in favour of a candidate who one aide wryly notes “talks like her but looks like David Cameron”: her former political ally and Cambridge University friend, Robert Jenrick.

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