Good morning. One weird trick beloved of the government over the last few difficult months has been to explain that it has been bequeathed a hopeless legacy by … somebody.
Suella Braverman, the seventh (and also fifth) home secretary since the Conservatives came to power in 2010, was the latest minister to deploy this strategy this week: as well as her incendiary claim that asylum seekers crossing the Channel in dinghies constituted an “invasion of our southern coast”, she bemoaned a “broken” system which meant that “illegal migration is out of control”.
