You cannot indirectly call your core voters ‘racists’ by dismissing a popular home secretary, and expect there to be no repercussions at the ballot box.
Any attempt by those in power to tackle the scourge of London knife crime is predictably met by large sections of the Left as another opportunity to play the victim card.
While her rhetoric was encouraging, it’s hard to see Braverman’s hard talk on immigration as much more than a leadership challenge to a beleaguered Sunak.
