Who is Suella Braverman? The UK’s courter of controversy who thirsts for Tory leadership

Suella Braverman has been accused of being less interested in her day job than running ‘an endless Tory leadership campaign’. Photograph: WPA/Getty

Suella Braverman, the Conservative party MP and the UK’s home secretary, is not a politician afraid of being a lightning rod for criticism.

But despite support from some colleagues, friend and foe probably agree with the words of Yvette Cooper, her opposition Labour party counterpart: “No other home secretary would ever have done this.”