Suella Braverman and the speeding ticket row
This Is Why
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4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson asks Tim Durrant from the Institute for Government what breaking the ministerial code actually means and speaks to Sky’s political correspondent Rob Powell about the political reasons this story may have broken now.
Podcast producer: Rosie Gillott
Editor: Philly Beaumont
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| 1:05.3 | let's talk about Suella Braverman because guess what, she's in trouble once again. |
| 1:12.1 | I jest, of course, because the more eagle-eyed of you will have noticed that the Home Secretary |
| 1:16.2 | is never too far away from a headline on the front pages. You might remember her thwarted leadership |
| 1:22.6 | ambition. She got to the second round of the Conservative leadership contest and then decided to help out |
| 1:27.8 | Rishi Sunak. You'll be very well aware of her plans to send people to Rwanda and of course her |
| 1:33.2 | strategy to stop the boats. But now, she finds herself in hot water over a speeding fine. |
| 1:40.8 | Did you ask civil serfans to put you on a one-on-one speeding course? In relation to the process, |
| 1:46.5 | I'm focused on delivering for the British people, do my job as hope so. What I will say is that, |
| 1:52.1 | in my view, I'm confident that nothing untoward has happened. Now, what we know and facts are still |
| 1:57.8 | emerging is that way back in 2022 when she was the Attorney General, |
| 2:02.3 | she was caught speeding, as often is the case. She was offered the chance to avoid three points |
| 2:07.7 | on her licence by participating in one of those speed awareness courses. But the story has |
| 2:13.9 | then developed a couple of complications. First, that she asked her civil servants to intervene in the matter. |
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