She may have been publicity hungry, but Braverman spoke for millions

The former home secretary's defenestration shows us that Westminster politics is reverting to type

I never had much time for Suella Braverman. As far as I could see, she spent too much time as home secretary courting headlines and too little getting on with the job of fulfilling the wishes and demands of the British people.

Don’t get me wrong, it is undeniable that many of Braverman’s supposedly ‘controversial’ remarks reflected mainstream opinion. I have no doubt, for example, that a large section of the electorate agreed with her statements that multiculturalism had failed, that the police applied double standards in how they approached different types of protester, that immigration without integration threatened the country’s national character, that trans women had no place in women’s hospital wards, and that on the whole the British Empire was a force for good.

Photo: Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street