The Braverman circus is exactly what Rishi Sunak was trying to avoid

The issue for the Home Secretary is competence, which is where doubts must be beginning to foment

- Anne MckElvoy

MY initial response to the revelation that Suella Braverman, the over- eventful Home Secretary, had sent messages from a private email was forbearing. A lot of people who did not like a Rightwing Home Secretary or her policies were confecting outrage to slam her: it seemed better to focus on her tendency to make policy on the hoof than go to town on a single lapse of passing a document of draft legislation to a colleague from her gmail. The gremlins of fate and clumsy fingers intervened. Braverman sent it to someone else entirely, who alerted the whips’ office and Braverman (after a delay) apologised.