Braverman has been using her private email for official papers ‘on an industrial scale’
Email a mess: this is not Suella Braverman, but considering her history of social media ineptitude, it might as well be.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman has admitted habitually breaking government rules by sending official documents to her private email address – and possibly on from there.
During her first period as Home Secretary, she sent government documents to her personal email address six times (in addition to the security breach that led to her resignation). That’s once every week during the 43 days she was in the post.
In a letter referring to the original breach of confidence, Braverman insisted there was no market sensitive or top secret information in the email she sent to Tory MP Sir John Hayes – that was also sent to an employee of fellow Tory MP Andrew Percy by mistake.
She reiterated her version of events after the offending email was sent – a timeline that conflicts with one that has been sent to the BBC.
And she said she apologised again for the breach when Rishi Sunak reappointed her Home Secretary, assuring him she would not use her personal email for official purposes and reaffirming her understanding of and adherence to the Ministerial Code.
How are we to believe that when the same letter admits she broke the rules six more times – as listed here?
She said using her personal phone this way – apparently the intention was to use the private phone to read documents while attending meetings on her official phone – was “reasonable in the circumstances and carried out in the public interest to enable me to do my job”.
And she insisted that she had acted “in accordance” with the official guidelines on ministerial email use.
It’s true that the High Court has ruled that the use of private email addresses, while controversial, is not against the law.
But handing confidential documents out to people who should not receive them is against the Ministerial Code and this excuse should not save her.
Braverman was set to give a statement on her other glaring cock-up (so far) – the scandal of the overcrowded migrant processing centre at Manston in Kent – late on Monday afternoon (October 31).
She was not expected to comment on the email scandal but may be questioned on it. This Writer wonders whether she’ll crack under the pressure.
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Sounds like she caught the same sloppy did not give two ducks that Hillary Clinton took with regard to national security and the safety and security of US staff. Also proves the UK Intelligence is a mirror of the FBI and are quite happy with leadership completely ignoring security rules and procedures as long as it is in the interests of their puppet masters. Total disgrace all round.