Never mind the speeding ticket – Suella Braverman’s inability to get a grip on migration is what’s truly dangerous
Fast and Furious
IF she had her time again, Suella Braverman would surely just pay the speeding fine and get on with the job of running the Home Office.
The Home Secretary was presented with the same options as thousands of other motorists every year: take the points or go on an awareness course.
Perhaps it was her own personal embarrassment that led her, unwisely, to ask officials if it was possible to take a course in private.
But, whatever the reason, it has left her open to accusations that it’s one rule for her and another for the rest of us.
Inevitably, the PM has also been forced to look at ordering an independent inquiry by his ethics adviser — much to the delight of her enemies in her own party as well as the Remainer civil service, which would love to take down yet another Cabinet minister it disagrees with.
This is all an unnecessary distraction from what is likely to be key at the next election: sorting out our borders.
Because what is truly dangerous for Braverman and the PM is the Government’s inability to get a grip on migration — legal and illegal.
The boats have still not been stopped.
And hundreds of thousands of visas are still being issued to foreign students and their family dependants every year.
Net migration figures released this week will prove a nightmare for the Home Secretary.
Ordinary folk DO really care about that.
And it’s on her response to it that she will be properly judged.
Pothole peril
POTHOLES aren’t just a nuisance — they can kill.
A recent report revealed 94 people have died as a direct result of badly maintained roads in Britain since 2013.
And if that sounds like wild exaggeration, then read motorist Alisha Howe’s terrifying story on Page 19.
Her car was catapulted into the air and landed upside down in a field after she hit a hole in an A-road at 40mph.
New thinking is urgently needed on how to tackle this nationwide menace, which has cost councils £300million in compensation claims alone over the past decade.
The Government needs a national strategy and an agreed programme of proper road-resurfacing.
Leaving it to shambolic local councils to patch up a few holes and move on isn’t working.
Lives are at stake.
What sup, doc?
NEXT time your back or knee hurts, put the pills down and pop out for a pint.
Not only will it help our struggling pub landlords but experts say it’s better at beating pain anyway.
Every tipple helps.