Tory MPs accuse Suella Braverman of making bid for party leadership

Party colleagues condemn home secretary's outrageous' National Conservatism conference speech, and say it undermined Sunak

Despairing Conservative MPs have accused Suella Braverman of undermining Rishi Sunak's authority and making a bid for the future leadership of the party with a partisan speech railing against experts and elites.

The home secretary delivered a highly personal blueprint for a political philosophy to take on the radical left" in what was interpreted as a pitch to be the right's next candidate, at a National Conservatism conference in London.