We need to have an honest conversation about Suella Braverman

What does it say about the United Kingdom that someone so joyously mendacious, malevolent and malicious as Suella Braverman can prosper in public life?

Forced to resign under Liz Truss’s shambolic and thankfully short tenure in Number-Ten over serious breaches of the ministerial code surrounding security violations before being unconscionably brought back into favour and reappointed by newly-installed and coronated Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, it is quite impossible to discern what qualities Braverman brings to one of the great offices of state in British politics other than the brutal and wilful disregard for human rights and common decency.

Braverman is the hate that Brexit produced. As with Sunak, she is the child of immigrants to the UK, who has embraced with the zeal of a new convert the tropes of anti-migrant rhetoric and hostility. Such people are a study in projection — exerting every sinew and outdoing themselves in the cause of being more Catholic than the Pope when it comes to embracing a reactionary British identity in the name of expurgating their migrant one.

A woman who feels so completely unabashed about sharing her dream at a public meeting of sending a planeload of asylum seekers to Rwanda needs help not political office. Someone responsible for ensuring that asylum…