Salty Suella's just as scathing in resignation speech as she was in her letter
Suella Braverman said the Rwanda policy is ‘destined to fail’ (Picture: PA)
Suella Braverman has blasted Rishi Sunak and said the Tories face ‘electoral oblivion in a matter of months’.
She delivered a personal statement to the House of Commons this afternoon and said the government’s Rwanda plan is ‘destined to fail’.
The former home secretary was dramatically sacked from her position as home secretary last month after her increasingly outspoken views on illegal immigration.
Mrs Braverman said in her statement: ‘On Monday, the prime minister announced measures that start to better reflect public frustration on legal migration. He can now follow that up with a Bill that reflects public fury on illegal migration and actually stops the boats.
‘It is now or never. The Conservative Party faces electoral oblivion in a matter of months if we introduce yet another Bill destined to fail. Do we fight for sovereignty or do we let our party die?
‘I may not have always found the right words in the past, but I refuse to sit by and allow us to fail. The trust that millions of people placed in us cannot be discarded as an inconvenient detail.
‘If we summon the political courage to do what is truly necessary, difficult though it may be, to fight for the British people we will regain their trust. And, if the prime minister leads that fight, he has my total support.’
She also voiced her concerns about ‘mass, uncontrolled, illegal immigration’ involving ‘mostly young men, many with values and social mores at odds with our own’.
However she welcomed Mr Sunak’s pledge to introduce a new law to keep the government’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda after the Supreme Court ruled it unlawful in November.
Her scathing remarks bare close resemblance to her resignation speech to Mr Sunak last month.
She accused the prime minister of ‘betrayal’ and ‘lacking in the qualities of leadership this country needs’.
At the time she said he ‘manifestly and repeatedly failed to deliver’ on key policies and said his ‘distinctive style of government means you are incapable of doing so’.
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