How Suella Braverman went from darling of the Tory right to outcast

One-time likely successor to party leadership has seen supporters desert her and rumours fly over a defection to Reform

Suella Braverman's fall from darling of the Conservative right to political outcast has been sharp and brutal.

One minute, she was the favoured future leader of MPs on the pro-Brexit wing of the party. The next, she had been swapped out in favour of a candidate who one aide wryly notes talks like her but looks like David Cameron": her former political ally and Cambridge University friend, Robert Jenrick.