Braverman’s Channel migrants scheme won’t work
Spectator (UK)APR 2023
It is no coincidence that outspoken attacks against Home Secretary Suella Braverman have come in the run-up to the local parliamentary election for the new seat of Fareham and Waterlooville, in which she will face Tory In Name Only rival Flick Drummond. Braverman has bounced back from a difficult 2022, unashamedly fighting nonsensical political correctness that has been protecting child grooming gangs from facing justice. The expenses story is a distraction from more important issues.
Braverman embodies the hypocrisy of the Conservatives, as she is using the parliamentary expenses system to her own advantage while the government cuts subsidies towards energy bills, leaving many households worse off and facing food and fuel poverty. Though she has made a moral point of imposing tougher sanctions on beggars, she has herself been making an easy living at the expense of taxpayers.