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The home secretary insisted nothing wrong had been done, but if it had, it was all someone else’s faultShe speaks! At last. For the last week or so, Suella Braverman has been rather kept under wraps. Not let out of the Home Office. Both for her own good and Rishi Sunak’s. It’s been left to ministerial colleagues Robert Jenrick and Jeremy Quin to answer urgent questions that were meant for the home secretary. Leaky Sue owes them both big time.But on Monday the hiding came to an end. The home secretary was forced out into the open. Not just to explain conditions in the Manston refugee processing facility, but also to give her version of why she, as the current home secretary, thought that she, as the then home secretary, had been right to resign less than a fortnight ago. Every time you think the government couldn’t get more absurd, some member of the cabinet finds a way of upping the ante. Continue reading...