SHE WAS forced to resign, and since then Suella Braverman has not shown any evidence of competency in her job, so why on earth was she gifted her old job back?

It is evident that almost everything this twice appointed Home Secretary does is bad, dangerous and incompetent – and the list is growing. She has committed serious security breaches, used inflammatory language, ignored advice on overcrowding at Manston Processing Centre, and panic-hired staff to handle complex asylum cases without any training. Two attempts at the same job and a record of serious failures.

Surely PM Rishi Sunak can see the disastrous impact of whatever grubby political deal he did in reappointing her.

Braverman committed some serious security breaches, not just once but six times. She sent confidential documents to a backbench Tory MP and others, and she used her personal email address to send sensitive Government emails. 

This isn’t a minor slip up – security services insist on secure communication to avoid security risks to our country. Basic knowledge for a Home Secretary with responsibilities including the police and secret services. I fear we will be in an unprecedented situation where security agencies may not trust the Home Secretary. 

Braverman was rightly forced to stand down. But astonishingly, six days later Sunak reappointed her to the same job, He talks about integrity under his leadership, but clearly those are just empty words.

This is the Home Secretary who famously said that it was her ‘dream’ to deport people to Rwanda. Addressing the House on migration, she deliberately referred to an “invasion” to invoke strong negative feelings.

A combination of Braverman’s incompetency, careless cruelty and casual relationship with the Ministerial code means she failed to act on repeated warnings about worsening overcrowding at Manston and that the Home Office was potentially in breach of the law. Complying with the law is a Ministerial Code requirement.

Manston is a short stay assessment centre that risks, in the words of Business Secretary Grant Shapps, being turned into an ‘unofficial detention centre’. It has a safe occupancy level of 1600 people but was allowed to reach occupancy of 4000. 

Children are being housed in tents. In desperation, a child has thrown a message over the fence, describing the conditions as prison like and pleading for help. A migrant was pinned to a fence and dragged away after claiming to reporters that he had been at the Centre for 30 days. And not a shred of humanity displayed by Braverman.

Instead, under her watch, there has been panic recruitment to clear the backlog of asylum applications. New recruits with no experience of the system and without the training they were promised are expected to conduct complex interviews and make life changing decisions. It is an unbelievable shambles.

Braverman’s position is clearly untenable. The Home Secretary’s language and mistakes are serious, reckless and irresponsible and must have consequences.

Almost everything twice appointed Home Secretary Suella Braverman does is bad, dangerous and incompetent – and the list is growing.

PM Rishi Sunak’s grubby political deal which saw her reappointed 6 days after her forced resignation has resulted in disaster.

She committed 6 security breaches.

The lack of outcry from her own side was galling – but sadly symptomatic of this heartless Sunak Government.

Under her watch, we have panic measures to clear the asylum application backlog, with untrained new recruits expected to make life changing assessments.

That is why I told the PM at PMQs that Braverman must be sacked. If he truly wants to deliver of a vision of “integrity, professionalism and accountability” as he said in his first speech as PM, then he will put country before Party, and sack her.

It is the right thing to do, and he must do it now.