Speedy Suella: How long can she last?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 22 May 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Did Home Secretary Suella Braverman break the ministerial code by asking civil servants to help her avoid a public speed awareness course?
She insists there's nothing to see here - she's taken the points on her licence and wants to move on.
Her allies insist she's the victim of a smear campaign by those who don't like her immigration policies.
But today on the News Agents we talk to former Justice Secretary Robert Buckland who asks what she was doing at the National Conservatism conference, and whether she is committed to 'collective cabinet responsibility' - a subtle dig at her own prime ministerial ambitions perhaps?
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| 0:12.6 | Any regrets, Home Secretary? |
| 0:14.6 | Are you subject to different laws than the rest of us, Home Secretary? |
| 0:19.5 | Is it time to go? |
| 0:20.8 | Well, that was the Home Secretary, Suella Braffman, except, of course, it wasn us, Home Secretary? Is it time to go? Well, that was the Home Secretary, |
| 0:22.2 | Suella Brafferman, except, of course, it wasn't the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, because |
| 0:26.5 | answer came there none to the shouted questions from reporters who were on the doorstep. |
| 0:32.7 | She was swept into her chauffeur-driven car where there's no chance of getting speeding points when the |
| 0:38.3 | police are driving you. But a little while later, we did get an answer of sorts. This is a classic |
| 0:45.7 | of the pool clip genre. Last summer, I was speeding. I regret that. I paid the fine and I took the |
| 0:52.9 | points. But we're focused now |
| 0:55.2 | on delivering for the British people and working for them. Did you ask civil serfins to put you |
| 0:59.7 | on a one-on-one speeding course? In relation to the process, I'm focused on delivering for the |
| 1:05.2 | British people, do my job. What I will say is that in my view I'm confident that nothing untoward has happened. |
| 1:12.0 | What are you focused on? |
| 1:13.1 | I'm focused on the future. |
| 1:14.5 | I'm focused on delivering for the British people listening to the newsagents. |
| 1:18.4 | I'm focused on not having to answer that pesky question about whether I did indeed ask for a one-on-one course |
| 1:24.8 | and whether when my advisers were asked about whether I'd had a |
| 1:29.0 | speeding ticket four times by the Daily Mirror, they said, no, don't want to focus on that |
| 1:34.4 | particularly either. I'm also focused on being the next leader of the Conservative Party. |
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