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The Home Secretary has undermined the Metropolitan Police, has defied the Prime Minister,

has made extraordinary comments about Northern Ireland.

Do you back her, and is she adding to the credibility, the important credibility of your government? Well, as many other cabinet ministers

have said, the words that she used are not words that I myself would have used, but I have

a productive relationship with her as a colleague,

and I've always given her the money that she needs to fund the police,

bring down crime, and to fund the immigration and asylum system.

That was Jeremy Hunts, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, being interviewed on Friday,

adding to the now cascade of cabinet voices,

essentially saying that how the Home Secretary expressed

herself about her own departmental area was wrong. We now have a government apparently

ranged against itself. For Sunak, who promised order, he is the patron of someone who ignites

chaos. This is an uncomfortable position, to say the least. But at the time of

recording, Suella Braverman remains. The government's collective view about something as fundamental as to

whether or not the police show bias, something as fundamental as equal justice is confused.

We're going to be taking you through where we are with this story and what happens

next, but also offer you an alternative take, hopefully something of a bigger picture, where, in a way,

Sola Braverman is only the microcosm, a symptom of a bigger malaise, that half of the government's

problem, perhaps, again and again, is that they don't understand

the forces which have taken them to where they are to office. They don't understand the public,

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