Twice-sacked former home secretary is ‘not a team player’ and may limit attempts to expand Reform’s appeal
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It was a full 90 minutes into the Reform UK rally – and 10 minutes into Nigel Farage’s speech – when the surprise guest who was also not a surprise at all came bounding on to the stage: ah, Suella Braverman, we were expecting you.
If ever there was a definition of a high-profile yet semi-detached Conservative, Braverman was it. Although twice the home secretary, and also attorney general, she has been on the backbenches for more than three years and had precisely zero chance of advancement under Kemi Badenoch.
Braverman’s sudden appearance at a Reform event in London held ostensibly to promote the party’s policy on veterans’ affairs had been kept a secret, including seemingly from some of the party’s media officers.
