Has Suella Braverman gone too far this time?

BBC News says For as long as Suella Braverman has been Rishi Sunak’s home secretary, she has had a licence to say the unsayable.

Say stuff in public some of her colleagues would only ever dare say in private.

Say stuff in public some of her colleagues wouldn’t even say in private.

How do we know she has this licence?

Because the lack of it would mean being sacked.

Many instantly leap to ascribe a motive to the home secretary’s interventions: her ambitions to lead the Conservative Party one day.

Those ambitions are real.

But Mrs Braverman’s primary motivation is she wants to articulate her authentic view – and high office won’t stop her doing that.

Or at least it won’t for as long as she holds it.