Yahoo News Suella Braverman latest news: Sunak accused of 'betrayal' in scathing letter
Rishi Sunak sacked Suella Braverman and brought David Cameron back into the Cabinet on Monday in a reshuffle that triggered a new row with the Right of the Conservative Party.
Former home secretary Suella Braverman has lashed out at the prime minister in a letter accusing him of "betrayal" over "key policies".
In a response to her dismissal that came one day after Rishi Sunak's Cabinet reshuffle, Braverman claimed Sunak had "manifestly and repeatedly failed to deliver on every single one of these key policies.
“Either your distinctive style of government means you are incapable of doing so. Or, as I must surely conclude now, you never had any intention of keeping your promises," she wrote.
“Someone needs to be honest: your plan is not working, we have endured record election defeats, your resets have failed and we are running out of time," the letter added. "You need to change course urgently.”
Referencing Sunak's "rejection" of her suggestion to "block off" the European Convention on Human Rights on the issue of small boats, Braverman added: “Your rejection of this path was not merely a betrayal of our agreement, but a betrayal of your promise to the nation that you would do ‘whatever it takes’ to stop the boats.”
The prime minister is already facing calls for his removal - with one Tory MP submitting a no confidence letter in Sunak to the 1922 committee, criticising Sunak's "purge" of the centre-right from his Cabinet.
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