Suella Braverman and Rishi Sunak: they’ve already fallen out, but the fallout over their Rwanda deportation plan could tip their whole party into the mire.

Oh, what a tangled web.

After Suella Braverman achieved her dream of being sacked from a Cabinet post by Rishi Sunak – important for her to position herself as a future Tory leader candidate – the Supreme Court has ruled that her plan to deport (let’s call them) unexpected migrants to Rwanda is unlawful.

This was the keystone of Braverman’s immigration policy, and it means she would probably have had to leave her post anyway.

And it makes her letter to Rishi Sunak – published to the world yesterday – even more comical than it was already.

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This Writer particularly enjoyed Owen Jones’s YouTube-borne take on it:

The letter was published in full on ‘X’ – and has prompted hilarity from all sides:

Still, we already knew she’s been living in la-la land:

This is interesting, though:

With the Supreme Court’s ruling on Rwanda, Sunak now has a reason to respond to Braverman – not from a position of strength, exactly, but certainly passing blame for the policy off onto her (despite it being a Conservative government plan).

For the record:

The Supreme Court said the government lost on more than just human rights law, meaning claims by right-wingers that the UK could avoid legal pitfalls by leaving the European Court of Human Rights (which we helped found) are not true.

Apparently three laws ban the UK from sending genuine refugees to Rwanda because of the risk they could be further returned to countries from which they have fled.

Sunak is now saying he is “prepared to change our laws” if necessary – but this could plunge him into a legal quagmire of unexpected consequences.

He can blame Braverman for failing to anticipate and neutralise the Court’s ruling, but he needs to accept that he cannot take the Rwanda policy any further forward – no matter how much pressure is put on him by his party’s right-wingers.

The Rwanda deportation policy has failed. It has cost the public £140 million without a single plane leaving the ground. Sunak needs to stop paying out fortunes on policies that are worthless.

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