SUELLA Braverman may be left floundering to find a new seat as an MP because of the UK Government’s review of constituency boundaries.
Tory party members in the newly created seat of Fareham and Waterlooville in Hampshire are due to vote on whether they want Braverman or another Tory MP, Flick Drummond, to represent them at Westminster.
However, according to The Times, local sources suggest that Drummond is the favourite to win, which would force Braverman to contest for a different seat.
The Home Secretary has been the MP for the constituency of Fareham since 2015.
But the changes mean some constituencies have been abolished, including Drummond’s constituency of Meon Valley.
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This means that party members in the new constituency will be given a vote on who they prefer to represent them.
If Braverman loses she will have to contest another seat, with Conservative sources suggesting she would have a better chance of victory in the neighbouring Hamble Valley seat against Paul Homes (who was elected as an MP in 2019).
It is thought the vote will take place next month.
A Tory MP for a nearby seat said that Braverman was not very good at “charming” the membership.
“Suella struggled to get selected anywhere," they told The Times.
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"She’s not a good selection performer. Her views are in line with the membership but she’s not very good at charming them, I’m not sure she’s member-friendly. She’s also been in the cabinet for quite a long time and that means your engagement with grassroots issues diminishes.”
“It’s a bit posher than you’d think, a bit less pro-Rwanda than you’d think. Even if the members there basically agree with her, they want to hear about softer stuff, not Rwanda. They’d rather have someone who they can have a nice chat to at an event about what was on TV that weekend.”
It comes after Braverman said that there was a “a tendency to apologise for what Britain did for the world historically and be a bit shy about our greatness.”
She was appearing on GB News where she discussed her family, migration policy and recent far-right protests.
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