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The knives are out. Not even a full week on from defeat at the polls and the fight for leadership of the Conservative Party is getting vicious. Suella Braverman has now responded to Kemi Badenoch’s leaked claim at yesterday’s Shadow Cabinet meeting that the former home secretary was undergoing a “very public” nervous breakdown.
In response to the leak, Badenoch said: “If there is no private space to discuss our Party’s challenges, we will never fully address what the electorate told us last week.” This afternoon, however, Braverman broke her short-lived silence on the matter.
I’d be interested in knowing whether Kemi thinks I’m having a “very public nervous breakdown”. #honesty #unity #wedontleak https://t.co/g4x9CLzAgR
— Suella Braverman MP (@SuellaBraverman) July 10, 2024
She went on: “Kemi, and the rest of the cabinet, should not have nodded along, as they and Rishi took the party to disaster.” After Braverman bashed the Tory “liberals” whom she blames for the party’s defeat, unity seems less likely in Opposition than it did in government. If that’s even possible…
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