![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/five-reasons-why-rishi-sunak-will-not-sack-suella-braverman/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/TELEMMGLPICT000314694931_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqclfnI3HAhNUHMU08wPfq46ODTmbdKB_VzSJ1yuUXjIk.jpeg&description=The senior member of the pro-Brexit European Research Group last night was gloomy about the prospects for Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary. "She won't last the week," he told me at the prospect of the loss of another former ERG chairman from the top table (ex-ERG chairman Jacob Rees-Mogg resigned last week before he was sacked). Indeed if you take your diet of news from mainstream broadcasters, then the conclusion is that Braverman's days are numbered. But is this really the case? I can see five reasons why Braverman survives, possibly until the next general election, as Home Secretary. Braverman's importance to Sunak, who is starting only his seventh day as Prime Minister today, is her positioning in the Conservative party. Braverman is a darling of the party's Right wing, as evidenced by the ovations she received at the party's conference in Birmingham last month. The party's grassroots loved her - and she clearly is in tune with them. None of this is confected - Braverman is rightwing to her irreducible core. Her critics might think it odd that she dreams of a plane full of failed asylum seekers taking off for Rwanda (as she told me on my podcast at the conference last month) but the members in the room loved it. This makes her politically valuable to Sunak. Right-wing Tories want to see one of their own at the top of the party - and Braverman is that person. Just last week Sunak and his then leadership challenger Penny Mordaunt met the ERG's six officers to discuss how they would lead the Conservative party. In a statement afterwards, Mark Francois, the ERG chairman, told the Telegraph: "Both have stressed to us their determination to unite the Conservative party, including in the formation and composition of any Government they lead." The language was clear: the ERG expected at least one Cabinet seat for one of their members. Braverman - as a former ERG chairman who had pulled out of the leadership conference the day before and backed Sunak - is the perfect){kind=link}
Senior MPs predict the Home Secretary won’t last the week. Here’s why she could survive until the next general election
The senior member of the pro-Brexit European Research Group last night was gloomy about the prospects for Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary.
“She won’t last the week,” he told me at the prospect of the loss of another former ERG chairman from the top table (ex-ERG chairman Jacob Rees-Mogg resigned last week before he was sacked).
Indeed if you take your diet of news from mainstream broadcasters, then the conclusion is that Braverman’s days are numbered.
But is this really the case? I can see five reasons why Braverman survives, possibly until the next general election, as Home Secretary.