In recent days Suella Braverman has seen her plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda deemed unlawful by the Court of Appeal; her own department reveal that the cost of sending a single asylum seeker to Paul Kagame’s police state is likely to be a prohibitive £170,000; and her Illegal Immigration Bill savaged in the House of Lords.
Meanwhile, the Tory Brexiteer Steve Baker, a former ally of Braverman’s and no soggy liberal, has reportedly withdrawn his support for her over the Home Secretary’s relentless pursuit of culture wars and inflammatory rhetoric about grooming gangs.
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