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Will Sunak publish Braverman’s ‘ransom note’?

19 November 2023

8:34 PM

19 November 2023

8:34 PM

Another week of Tory wars looms in SW1. Ministers are desperately trying to find a fix to the Supreme Court’s legal kiboshing of the Rwanda scheme. But one person they certainly can’t rely on for any favours is Suella Braverman, the recently-axed Home Secretary. On Tuesday, she published a stinging three-page assessment of Rishi Sunak’s premiership; on Thursday, she drafted her own ‘five-point plan’ to fix Rwanda. And today she has done a big-two page interview in the Mail on Sunday in which she accuses the PM of a lack of ‘moral leadership’. Ouch.

But one detail that jumped out to Mr S in the Mail interview was about something Braverman did not do last week. In her letter on Monday to Sunak, she suggested that he had actually signed up to a series of written pledges in return for her lending her support to him in last year’s Tory leadership contest. ‘Firm assurances’ on ‘key policy priorities’ were given including reducing legal migration, plans to stop small boats and Brexit, with Braverman writing that:

This was a document with clear terms… Our deal was no mere promise over dinner, to be discarded when convenient and denied when challenged.


So, er, will we be seeing this document? The answer, it seems, is no, with Braverman telling the Mail that:

You’d have to ask the Prime Minister, he’s got a copy of it, there were witnesses as well. I’ve got a copy. But to be honest I’ve made the point; I don’t need to keep going over events of a year ago and if the Prime Minister wants to dispute what I’m saying he is able to do that or he can confirm because he will have a copy of the document.

Somehow, Steerpike suspects No. 10 won’t be in much of a hurry to publish a copy of said document…

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