Suella Braverman
The punishing life of a chief whip
Simon Hart describes his frustrations as he grapples with the rivalries and petty jealousies of colleagues lobbying for peerages and knighthoods as the Tory party implodes
It shouldn’t be a crime to sniff a goshawk
I notice that the naturalist Chris Packham has been reported to the police for the ‘crime’ of sniffing a goshawk.…
Why weren’t police forces investigating every theft?
Police must investigate every theft. This is the message from the Home Secretary as the government heralds an agreement from…
Is that enough about Phillip Schofield?
As I have noted before, there is always another circle. I thought that last week’s scandal (originally entitled ‘Suellagate’ or…
Is Sunak heading for a showdown?
When the Prime Minister first assembled his cabinet, the most controversial appointment was Suella Braverman as Home Secretary. She had…
There is such thing as a stupid question
Some people seem to make a career of being ashamed (or at least claiming to be ashamed) of their country.…
Sunak can’t afford to lose Braverman
Back in the early days of the Blair governments, Alastair Campbell was reputed to have a rule for resignations: once…
Did Suella Braverman break the ministerial code?
Fresh from claiming the scalp of Dominic Raab, is the civil service now after Suella Braverman? The Sunday Times reports…
Is Rishi out of ideas?
Ever since Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister, his aides have worried that May would be the month of mutiny. His…
Why Sunak would find it tough to lose Braverman
The safest place for a minister in a crisis is meant to be the despatch box. The thinking is that…
Will the Tory truce hold?
During the summer leadership race between Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, Sunak’s team were braced for a bloodbath if he…
Penny Mordaunt’s trans problem
The Tory leadership contest is yet to officially begin, but things are already turning nasty. As well as reports in…
Braverman’s brush with the law
Ah student politics: is there anything quite like it? The strange creatures it attracts, the passions it unleashes, the adolescent…
Don’t call Corbynistas ‘cultural Marxists’
Suella Braverman, the Conservative MP for Fareham, said yesterday that the radical left is increasingly hostile to open debate and is…
Jacob Rees-Mogg: Why Boris Johnson would make a good leader (and I wouldn’t)
‘Away with the cant of “measures not men”! — the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the…
If only Britain knew how it was viewed abroad
22 June 2024 9:00 am
If the country were a person, it would need its friends to sit it down and deliver it a few home truths about its damaging behaviour to itself and others, says Michael Peel