The former Home Secretary Suella Braverman has launched an assault on her former boss Rishi Sunak in her resignation speech in the House of Commons this afternoon
“It is now or never. The Conservative Party faces electoral oblivion in a matter of months if we introduce yet another Bill destined to fail. Do we fight for sovereignty or let our party die?“ she told the House adding that:
“I refuse to sit by and allow the trust that millions of people have put in us be discarded like an inconvenient detail. If we summon the political courage to do what is truly necessary… then I am confident we will regain their support.”
She told MPs that mass migration “is putting unsustainable pressure on public finances and public services, undermining community cohesion, and jeopardising national security and public safety” and in a swipe at Rishi Sunak said that crossings are down’ is not the same as ‘stopping the boats’.”
Braverman said that she supported leaving the ECHR and replacing the Human Rights Act with a British Bill of Rights that protects the vulnerable and our national security, and
“finishes the job of Brexit by extricating us from a foreign court and restoring true parliamentary sovereignty.”
