Braverman’s secret meetings with ‘anti-woke’ MP flagged by officials before she quit

Civil servants say there was significant disquiet' over home secretary Suella Braverman's dealings with Tory rightwinger John Hayes

Home Office officials raised concerns over a series of secretive meetings Suella Braverman held with an influential rightwing backbench MP weeks before she was forced to resign over leaking sensitive information to him, the Observer has been told.

In addition, sources have claimed that the home secretary appears to have instructed officials to look at potentially implementing hardline proposals cooked up by a rightwing thinktank that would in effect prohibit genuine refugees" from settling in the UK, a move that threatens an even more uncompromising approach to asylum seekers.