Antisemitism to illegal immigration, Suella Braverman's 10 barbs on UK PM Rishi Sunak

Two days after she was sacked by the UK prime minister, Suella Braverman wrote a scathing letter to Rishi Sunak saying that he repeatedly failed to pass key policies. Popular on the right of the party, Braverman kept quiet on Monday after being fired but published a letter to Sunak on Tuesday that could mark the start of a campaign to replace him if, as polls predict, the Conservatives lose an election expected next year, according to Reuters.

My letter to the Prime Minister pic.twitter.com/7OBzaZnxr2

— Suella Braverman MP (@SuellaBraverman) November 14, 2023

“I accepted your offer to serve as Home Secretary in October 2022 on certain conditions. Despite you have been rejected by a majority of Party members during the summer leadership contest and thus having no personal mandate to be Prime Minister, I agreed to support you because of the firm assurances you gave me on key policies,” Braverman wrote. Here’s a look at how the ex-Home Secretary of the UK accused Sunak of failing to keep his promises:

1. Braverman says that as the Home Secretary, she sent numerous letters on key subjects to Sunak for over a year adding that she also requested them to be discussed with him and his team. However, her proposals were met with “equivocation, disregard and lack of interest”
2. “Either your distinctive style of government means you are incapable of doing so or you never had any intention of keeping your promises,” she said
3. She says her proposals of key policies are not “just pet interests of mine” but were promised to the people of Britain in 2019. “Our deal was no mere promise over dinner, to be discarded when convenient and denied when challenged,” Braverman wrote
4. The former Home Secretary added that she had recommended blocking off the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and House Rent Allowance (HRA) but Sunak rejected the plan leading to the “betrayal” of their agreement and “betrayal of your promise to stop the boats”
5. She also accused Sunak of failing “to rise to the challenge posed by the increasingly vicious antisemitism and extremism displayed on our streets”
6. “I have become hoarse urging you to consider legislation to ban the hate marches and help stem the rising tide of racism, intimidation and terrorist glorification threatening community cohesion,” she said
7. Britain’s highest court is set to rule Wednesday on whether the government’s plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda is legal, delivering a boost or a blow to a contentious central policy of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s administration. On this, Braverman said, “At every stage of litigation I cautioned you and your team against assuming we would win. I repeatedly urged you to take legislative measures that would better secure us against the possibility of defeat
8. You ignored these arguments. You opted instead for wishful thinking as a comfort blanket to avoid having to make hard choices. This irresponsibility has wasted time and left the country in an impossible position”
9. “If we lose in the Supreme Court, an outcome that I have consistently argued we must be prepared for, you will have wasted a year and an Act of Parliament, only to arrive back at square one. Worse than this, your magical thinking — believing that you can will your way through this without upsetting polite opinion — has meant you have failed to prepare any sort of credible ‘Plan I, 1 wrote to you on multiple occasions setting out what a credible Plan B would entail and making clear that unless you pursue these proposals, in the event of defeat, there is no hope of nights this side of an election. 1 received no reply from you,” she added
10. “You have manifestly and repeatedly failed to deliver on every single one of these key policies.  They are what we promised the British people in our 2019 manifesto which led to a landslide victory. They are what people voted for in the 2016 Brexit Referendum”