Just one of many reasons Braverman has to go

[Emrys]

1. It looks like this isn't going to die down any time soon!

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Labour Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper - deprived of the chance to question Braverman directly in the House this afternoon because the Home Secretary (for this week at least) bravely ran away - isn't quitting:

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Yvette Cooper
@YvetteCooperMP

The Home Secretary admitted sending official Govt documents to those not authorised to receive them. Was this the only time?

Home Secretary is responsible for national security. Breaches & security lapses need to be investigated.

My letter to Cabinet Secretary Simon Case

Then later in the day (this is the first time I've linked to TalkTV, let alone Harry Coles on a Piers Morgan show; let's hope it doesn't become a habit):

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Yvette Cooper
@YvetteCooperMP

This is extraordinary & very serious

@JakeBerry says there were “multiple breaches of the Ministerial Code” by @SuellaBraverman inc “documents on cybersecurity”

@RishiSunak what security warnings did you ignore when you reappointed Home Secretary?

@KateEMcCann @MrHarryCole

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Fans of irony may enjoy, as I did, the revelation from Berry that the leaked documents concerned cybersecurity.

The SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford thinks Braverman's heading for a record for being Home Secretary for the second-shortest and third-shortest terms:

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Peston
@itvpeston

.@Peston: Do you think Suella will go?

@Ianblackford_MP: I do, I think Rishi has made a big mistake on this.

@theSNP Westminster Leader says the Prime Minister’s decision to reappoint the Home Secretary was a failure of leadership and he should “fess up”.

#Peston

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Heck, even the Lib Dems are trying to get in on the action:

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Lewis Goodall
@lewis_goodall
NEW: Lib Dems call for Cabinet Office inquiry into the (re)appointment of Suella Braverman as Home Secretary, citing potential security concerns.

Nazir Afzal (a former Chief Prosecutor whose time in office overlapped with Starmer's time as Director of Public Prosecutions and Head of the Crown Prosecution Service) thinks there may be a good reason why Sunak strenuously avoided answering Starmer's question about whether he's received any official warnings about appointing Braverman:

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nazir afzal
@nazirafzal

Starmer asks #PMQs whether Sunak took advice from Officials about appointing Braverman
Sunak pointedly refused to answer

There is clearly more to emerge & it can only be to the detriment of the standing of the Home Secretary & the integrity of the PM

Funnily enough, Braverman can be quite good at keeping secrets when it suits her:

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🏛️GOV2.UK
@GOV2UK
Home Secretary Suella Braverman trying not to tell us that The ERG is a secretive group of MPs and Ministers who take Public Money and use it to research how to derail UK Democracy for Private Interests.

#ToryDictatorship #ToriesOut111

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What did Sunak have to promise to whom to get the premiership? Maybe we'll find out one day, along with what sworn enemies he made in the process.

Meanwhile, he should bear in mind that much as Johnson deserved to go for any number of transgressions as prime minister, his bridge too far was lying about what he knew in order to protect a crony who'd repeatedly broken the law.