Suella Braverman forwarded government documents to her private email accounts at least 127 times while serving as attorney general
Suella Braverman, the former Tory home secretary, has put a post on social media explaining why she is backing Robert Jenrick for party leader.
I’m supporting @RobertJenrick to be the next leader of the Conservative Party.
We need to rebuild trust on one of the defining issues of our age: the global migration crisis.
Robert’s unequivocal commitment to leaving the ECHR and placing a cap on visas is how we start
While Jenrick has set out a series of very specific commitments, most notably on immigration and leaving the European Convention on Human Rights, Badenoch has rightly resisted the pressure to do so. She seems to know instinctively what I wish I had worked out before I became opposition leader in 1997: that before voters will pay any attention to the policies you announce, they need to understand your values.
Badenoch’s insistence that principles rather than policies are the starting point for political revival is correct. It is borne out by the experience of the more successful opposition leaders in recent history, from Churchill to Thatcher. Her chosen values of truth, personal responsibility, active citizenship, equality under the law and family — in the broadest, modern sense of family — are strong foundations on which to rethink policies over several years. And her emphatic view that the processes of government need to be re-engineered to achieve anything significant is also spot on. Add in her pugnacious personality and it is possible to discern the combination of values and energy that could yet lift the Conservative Party up from the electoral floor.
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