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Watch: Suella Braverman will NOT be investigated over speed course dodge

Rishi Sunak has announced that he won’t be investigating whether Suella Braverman broke the Ministerial Code by trying to get civil servants to arrange a private speed awareness course after she was caught speeding.

She didn’t want to mix with the hoi polloi, it seems.

Here’s how the BBC reported the story, a discussion of it from Politics Live, and how Labour leader Keir Starmer referred to it during Prime Minister’s Questions.

ALL of these segments feature commentators getting festive at Braverman’s expense and are therefore well worth watching!

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No investigation despite Braverman admitting wrongdoing over speeding fine

Suella Braverman and Rishi Sunak: is he too weak to sack her?

Rishi Sunak has said there will be no investigation into whether Suella Braverman breached the Ministerial Code over a speeding offence – even though she has admitted asking civil servants to arrange preferential treatment for her.

For the Code to have been breached, Braverman would have to have instructed Home Office civil servants to arrange a special one-on-one speed awareness course in order for her to avoid a fine and points on her driving licence.

The ministerial code requires ministers to ensure “no conflict arises” between their public duties and their private interests – and the speeding offence is a private matter.

In correspondence with prime minister Rishi Sunak, she has admitted asking civil servants to do that.

But Sunak has now insisted that there will be no investigation to determine whether she breached the Code.

Shades of Boris Johnson and Priti Patel!

That former prime minister let his Home Secretary off the hook after she was alleged to have bullied civil servants in three government departments. An investigation revealed that she had indeed done this but Johnson refused to accept it and his ethics adviser resigned instead.

Sunak came a decision after discussing the matter with his own ethics adviser, Sir Laurie Magnus.

Will we hear calls for Sir Laurie to go, if his judgement is so badly at fault?

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Speeding fine dumps Braverman in deep water

Never mind channel-crossing migrants – Home Secretary Suella Braverman has dumped herself in deep water (metaphorically) after it was alleged that she instructed civil servants to arrange a one-to-one speed awareness driving course after being caught speeding.

If she did indeed tell her staff to do this, it would be a (minor) breach of the Ministerial Code.

Complicating the matter is the possibility that she might even want to use this as a springboard to get out of Rishi Sunak’s Cabinet, so she can position herself to make a bid for the Conservative Party leadership in the near future.

… It would also get her out of answering difficult question on the immigration figures that are due to be published later this week and are expected to be much larger than she has promised.

Panellists on the BBC’s Politics Live show became quite festive in discussing her predicament.

Viewers may particularly enjoy Clive Lewis’s use of the word “turdage”, shortly after the 50–second mark.

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Tory civil war? Suella Braverman wanted to claim speeding ticket on expenses, claims William Wragg

Suella Braverman: all things considered, let’s hope she was just a passenger when this pic was taken.

Would this really be the first time a Conservative MP has tried to make you pay the fine after they committed a crime? I doubt it.

What makes this interesting is the fact that Suella Braverman is the Home Secretary – the minister for law and order – and has been Attorney General before that. She wouldn’t want any other criminal to avoid the consequences of their crime, so why should she get to do it?

And of course it’s another Tory who dobbed her in.:

Senior Tory MP William Wragg made the extraordinary claim about Home Secretary Suella Braverman in a series of tweets in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Alongside a picture of the Winston Churchill statue and Houses of Parliament, at almost 2am, he wrote: “This evening, having kept quiet for a while, I was struck by the lamentable hopelessness of the Home Secretary, remembering particularly her first week or so as a Member of Parliament.”

He went on: “My clearest recollection of our Home Secretary’s legal acumen came from day one as an MP. We had a presentation from [expenses watchdog] IPSA.

“Her question to IPSA concerned whether a speeding ticket incurred during the course of parliamentary duties could be claimed on expenses.

“Rather embarrassed, the representatives from IPSA said no.”

Mr Wragg added: “Thank goodness our Nation has been blessed with such a fine Attorney General and Home Secretary. Carry On!”

This Writer can only agree with the implied criticism.

Perhaps the penalty for crimes of any kind should be re-defined for serving members of Parliament.

In the Home Secretary’s case, knowing her particular… enthusiasms… may I suggest that her speeding tickets be commuted into deportation to Rwanda?

Source: Suella Braverman asked whether she could claim speeding ticket on expenses, Tory claims – Mirror Online

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Robert Jenrick banned from driving for six months after he was caught speeding

Robert Jenrick on one of his many media appearances: if he has to travel for any in the future, he’ll have to turn them down.

Immigration minister Robert Jenrick has been banned from driving for six months and fined more than £1,600 after he was caught breaking the speed limit on the M1, following an appearance on the BBC’s Any Questions.

The Tory MP for Newark was recorded driving his Land Rover at 68mph in a temporary 40mph zone on the M1 southbound in Northamptonshire on August 5 last year, after appearing on the radio show at Wakefield Cathedral in West Yorkshire.

Jenrick admitted the offence in February and said in a letter to the court that he “sincerely apologised”.

He was fined £1,107 and ordered to pay a £442 victim surcharge and £90 in costs, the Courts and Tribunals Service centre said.

Ironically, the case was heard in private under the single justice procedure at Northampton magistrates court yesterday (April 4). The procedure was introduced by the Tory government for minor offences, to clear a backlog in the judicial system.

Members of the press and public were unable to attend, but that didn’t help Jenrick as the details were already known and it was possible to get the result from the CTS.

So he came clean in a statement in which he claimed that he had not realised that a variable speed limit was in operation.

That doesn’t clear him of the fact that he’s habitual: In March last year Jenrick was fined £307 and handed three penalty points for breaking a 40mph speed limit on the A40 in west London in August 2021.

It won’t affect his work; undoubtedly he’ll have the use of a ministerial car if he needs it.

But it might curtail extra-curricular activities like media appearances. That’s a small mercy for which we should all be grateful.

Source: Robert Jenrick banned from driving for six months for speeding | Robert Jenrick | The Guardian

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