Braverman Survives To Resign Another Day... But It's Coming

" It was obvious, when Rishi Sunak took more than two days to “avail himself of the information” about the home secretary’s speeding offence, that he did not want to ask for a formal investigation.

- JOHN RENTOUL

Fortunately, Sir Laurie Magnus, the independent adviser on ministerial interests, agreed that “further investigation is not necessary”. And so, with the lightest non-apology apology (“I apologise for the distraction this has caused”), Suella Braverman survives to resign another day.

She provided a detailed defence yesterday of her lesser offence of asking civil servants to help her arrange a private speed awareness course – she wanted to do it in person, but there were security complications with her police protection, she said.

But she said nothing about the more serious breach of rules by her special adviser, who appeared to mislead journalists by saying “there is nothing like that” when asked if the home secretary had been done for speeding.