Suella Braverman ‘tried to get out of final vote on small boats bill’

Exclusive: Home secretary's aides repeatedly requested she be allowed to miss vote on major legislation despite three-line whip

Suella Braverman tried to get out of the final Commons vote on the government's small boats bill despite Conservative MPs being instructed to attend, the Guardian has learned.

The home secretary's aides sent multiple emails over the course of several days to the Tory whips' office requesting that she be slipped", or permitted to miss, the third reading of her department's flagship legislation.