1. You Kent be seriousFor Suella Braverman, controversy begets controversy. Last night the home secretary at last surfaced in the Commons: to address allegations that she had caused overcrowding at a migrant processing centre in Manston in Kent, and front up to her use of her personal phone to handle official documents. She left having put neither of those stories to bed – and having sparked a new row over her rhetoric.
Insisting she had been the victim of a “witch-hunt”, Braverman told MPs that she was prepared to do all it took to fix a “broken” asylum system, “out of control” illegal migration, and – most controversially – described the small boats crisis as an “invasion on our southern coast”. That language, critical
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