Humiliated on TV and dodging questions in Commons, ministers set out to defend home secretary
This one is going to run and run. If Rishi Sunak had hoped that his somewhat confusing explanation at PMQs for Suella Braverman’s special interpretation of national security was going to end doubts about his decision to reappoint her as home secretary, then he was in for disappointment.
Surprisingly, not many MPs – including some Tories and probably even Rish! himself – were convinced by a garbled: “She done nothing wrong but even if she had at least she owned up and besides six days is more than long enough for her to have learned her lesson.”
