The Home Secretary exerts great influence over matters of policing, national security and immigration. Never more so than at times of heightened community tensions, she or he must act in favour of the public good. Suella Braverman fell short of that expectation.
Indeed, commenting after the protests that took place in London over the weekend, assistant Met commissioner Matt Twist appeared to suggest, without naming names, that Braverman made the job of the police more difficult following her comments about pro-Palestinian marches in an article that No 10 said it did not sign off on.
