Suella Braverman accused of having a nervous breakdown by Kemi Badenoch in leaked meeting

After a leak of Kemi Badenoch's contribution to the first shadow cabinet meeting saw her accuse Suella Braverman of having a nervous breakdown, Suella has taken to Twitter to pop back at Kemi.
Kevin Schofield joins Kait Borsay to discuss the latest alongside pollster Luke Tryl.
00:00 Kevin breaks down the Suella-Kemi drama
13:00 Luke Tryl's polling
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[@dub604]

Suella Braverman and Kemi Badenoch are the British version of Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert.

[@rgsnr8702]

LOL i am a conservative and have no time for either of them , greene i just a snarling junk yard dog yapping at passing cars

[@paulbird3235]

But without their brains, 😂🤣😂🤣.....

[@patricialockhart2135]

@@rgsnr8702 "just a snarling junk yard dog yapping at passing cars" Succinctly put lol 2 Reply

[@swanvictor887]

....but without the charm and intelligence....

[@dub604]

@@swanvictor887 😂🤣😆

[@MrYossarianuk]

Keep reminding us how bad the Tories are

[@swanvictor887]

as a Labour supporter, I fully endorse the Tory party electing either Cruella or Bad-Enoch to lead them....fantastic! Guarantee Labour at least three terms.... Weep on Times Radio....

[@stevejames6674]

Come on Times Radio. You must focus on holding Labour responsible for the chaos that the Tories have left

[@paulbird3235]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.........

[@houldenc22]

no chance of that - they are having a breakdown live on air

[@paulbird3235]

@@houldenc22 Just like FOX NEWS.

[@fiachramaccana280]

haha brilliant

[@chelloandra]

Ha ha ha bit early they got to do something first

[@MrGavinBoyd]

These muppets will end up making Boris and Liz look good. 🤡💩

[@PassiveAgressive319]

How the Tories can even contemplate considering these two is beyond me. They have 120 MPs and this is the best they have? Surely not. It’s like they don’t learn from their mistakes

[@boybath]

what are their mistakes?

[@31Blaize]

@@boybath Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak for starters 🤣

[@swanvictor887]

@@boybath scroll back 14 years mate. Jesus....ever thought about WAKING UP??

[@boybath]

@@swanvictor887 what expenditure being 111% of income - yep good idea

[@swanvictor887]

@@boybath context....? What are you talking about..??

[@SamHarrisonMusic]

She's not having a nervous breakdown, she's just a terrible human being...

[@dianeglanville]

that's why we need to keep them out of power behaving like children

[@user-no1ru2wq7e]

We have gutter politics and everything that goes with it .Meanwhile in the real world the British public continue to pay their taxes to keep the country afloat.

[@user-jc4lb5mm7x]

Braverman and Badenoch are 2 cheeks either side of the sewer that is the Tory party.

[@_.august4243]

ok don’t vote for them i guess

[@TryDiy]

2:51 Remember that the Tory membership chose Liz Truss, over Rishi Sunak, so are happy to spend the next 15 years in opposition.

[@PassiveAgressive319]

Suella should go to Reform if she’s that desperate

[@TryDiy]

But they're not!

[@houldenc22]

Yes, and then we can have a recall petition

[@Yui-ip7cd]

Suella is very unstable keeps changing boss.

[@emilymaitlislaptop]

To paraphrase someone unknown... 'The Right shall eat itself!' This is SO satisfying - and hopefully so moreish...

[@paulbird3235]

Like two cat's in a sack. what a relief to be shut of that horrendous goverment.

[@zapfanzapfan]

Nothing says you are modern like having something called the 1922-committee....

[@AndreS_22246]

Which looks like it’s still staffed by the founding members 😂

[@nifralo2752]

A party within a party

[@robertcreighton4635]

Handbags at dawn 😂

[@beecee2205]

Kemi pretending she didnt know about the leak is not rather odd, its rather typical. She opens her mouth, bs lies pour out.

[@paulc1553]

Two vile adversaries.

[@ajw9533]

The Tories have been having a collective nervous breakdown since Cameron cheerfully walked away from his duty as leader in June 2016. Braverman and Badenoch, promoted far, far beyond their meagre abilities are just symptoms of this ongoing crisis.

[@gareth7574]

Please save us from this shower of goons and grifters

[@liamdonnelly1034]

Tories need to stay away from these 2.. what a shambles of a party

[@Trecesolotienesdos]

get rid of the classlessness. the same classlessness that led to Johnson and Truss. Is having a nervous breakdown even something to mock?

[@MrSensible2]

When two diatribes go to war...

[@emilymaitlislaptop]

The prefix should be 'Frankie says...'

[@Tom_murray89]

The tories are finished

[@VA-lo4ul]

Who bloody cares if SB had a nervous breakdown or not. They should both be out of politics.

[@theshadowdirector]

There's a reason the vast majority of successful politicians don't talk straight. They tend to scare off many chunks of the electorate very easily.

[@TooDarnSoulful]

This most certainly is not grown up political debate, sadly nobody wants to admit that the party is totally split and beyond unity, pathetic ! Policts of the kindergarten and the media is not much better ! If they cut out the membership are out of the picture and the wets change then that will be their final act.

[@swanvictor887]

oh dear, how sad. never mind.

[@TooDarnSoulful]

@@swanvictor887 Brilliant input, thanks.

[@jameswhitfield1375]

It all goes to show what a wonderful job the British people did in removing them office. They now need a period in the political wilderness that will enable them to regroup, reassess, and start all over again. A thousand years would seem appropriate.

[@rnanerd6505]

Farage insulting Bercow wasn't "retro", it was unparliamentary

[@EamonCoyle]

Put all the leadership candidates into the jungle for "I'm a Tory get me outta here" and the winner takes all !!

[@JohnSmall314]

He said, she said, the budgie said. Blah blah blah, Anything and everything to avoid talking about real policies. It no longer matters, they're out of power for a long time. Just ignore them. The memory of what they did to the country plus demographic change (old people dying, young people becoming voters etc) ensures that the Tories are no longer a significant party.

[@hydra66]

People want a unifying, not a divisive influence at the head of the party. Kemi and Suella should take note or they'll lose to a third party.

[@Pooter-it4yg]

Everyone in the whole party needs to grow up. Do they seriously think the voting public will consider a leader with the emotional control of a child?

[@cupguin]

They aren't being elected leader of the party by the voting public, they're being elected by the membership. The same membership that picked Truss.

[@Pooter-it4yg]

@@cupguin I was referring to their eventual appeal to the public at an election.

[@nifralo2752]

​@@cupguinas Corbyn taught us if you go for what the membership want the public won't like it

[@brotherbuzz1070]

Why are all journalists so self-satisfied?

[@ihmcallister]

Good God! Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak. Is it really any wonder the Conservative electorate abandoned ship in every possible direction? Now Braverman vs. Badenoch. FFS is this the best that's left? I'm surprised people aren't at Dover buying used dinghies and heading for Calais!

[@SirWhiteRabbit-gr5so]

The ship of state leaks from the top. Yes, Minister

[@fasteddyuk]

Who's going to take over the asylum next?

[@robinstevenson6690]

If the Tories select Braverman as their leader, I predict Labour will get at least two terms in gov't. Selecting Badenoch would be almost as bad as Braverman.

[@BrendanZ-cd4wr]

Because she's black? - of course not!

[@beatricecowley4307]

How about holding the Tories accountable? They are the party who have been in office for 14 years. Labour have only had the job for a couple of weeks. The posh boy crew nearly finished this country. They certainly put the NHS and our public services in need of life support.

[@garyrogers8480]

There is some doubt as to whether Kemi actually won her seat.

[@ScruffyTubbles]

Why?

[@vanburger]

But why Kemi Badenoch, the most hated woman in the UK. If the doorstep is anything to go on.

[@blackopspilled]

They eat their own

[@LuzDoSol-yr5bv]

Wow!! " Kemi and Suella go to War" 😂😂😂😂 Man, that headline!!! 😂😂😂

[@emilymaitlislaptop]

Fight! Fight! Fight! etc. 😉

[@breadbreaker500]

Sunak calling all 175 MPs tells you that he’s deep down a nice guy. He’s not cut for politics!

[@MarkCroucherRC4fun]

Hand me the popcorn 🍿 😊

[@albertbrammer9263]

Badenoch's combative nature makes her look arrogant.

[@muirislandjim453]

Olukemi Olufunto Badenoch is a liar and a bully

[@mobsiesixsixsix9785]

Does that stand for Lukewarm Elephant bad enough?

[@luismanuel2612]

No member of the Tory party who has had any responsibility in the conduct of British politics over the last 14 years will be able to win the next elections. The British people will look at the candidate and remember how terrible the party has been in recent years. The Tory party needs a fresh start, someone young and not connected to the last years of government

[@nickhindley4295]

Let them get on with it. It seems they won't learn from their defeat but at least they are now doing this squabbling on their own time instead of distracting them from governing effectively.

[@williamhicken1206]

It is wonderful when the interviewer does 60% of the commenting.

[@pinkpanther7030]

Of course Braveman ambitious dreams about Rwanda deal are shattered. Poor lady she can't get another job😢

[@ScruffyTubbles]

She would have been better off if she lost. She would get 14 60ths of her salary as a pension so around 35k per annum index linked (assuming she didn't buy AVCs). Then she could gave been carting her Right Wing bile around the lunatic fringes of this country and the US.

[@markhayward7400]

The rest of us can just sit back and enjoy this spat between two deeply flawed politicians and human beings, both totally unsuited to leadership positions. Never has the chasm between ambition and talent been so wide !

[@MegaRugster]

Kemi is burning all her bridges.. I doubt she'll be in any party soon enough.

[@patrickuotinen]

15.04 "Climate change and environment" also includes the sewage scandal, which featured quite visibly in the Lib Dem campaign.

[@martinwelsford1353]

What a politician says today is not necessarily what s/he will say tomorrow. Politics is the art of the possible so we should not rule out a coming together of the tory right with Reform

[@Ridersonthestorm8899]

If James Cleverly (Cleverly by name James by nature) gets the job they will be out of power for many years

[@JRattheranch]

Suella Braverman as the new leader! That's brilliant news because the Tory party, led by her will be 20 years getting back into a chance of contending!

[@nanunanu8745]

Labour won't get a second term

[@bernardfox9078]

What have Braverman and Badenoch done in politics, apart from have a loud mouth ? It just shows how vile and out of touch the tory party is.

[@JohnBoyle-er2kk]

The winner gets the next gig with tyson fury😂

[@metalthrashingmatt]

All they are going to do is remind people why they are so toxic..

[@JT-si6bl]

Times, most of the comments are more accurate. Perhaps it’s because your paymaster censors you?

[@rrbh]

Piffle. Froth. Irrelevant. Rats in a sack will always fight.

[@tomgraham6071]

Can journalists stop relishing in someone using mental distress as some kind of a criticism please? They'd be the first to make headlines and stories out of it if it suited them to bring someone down. But when the priority is excitement and gossip, suddenly their double standards rise to the surface.

[@ABO-Destiny]

I dont know why , probably due to my south asian ancestry, the more likes of Kemi goes after Suella Braverman the more I tend to sympathise with Suella. I did not and do not align with her support for Israel but on many other topics, particularly on immigration she was spot on and straight forward. BTW: Interesting coincidence maybe, I had a school teacher who looked quite similar in appearance, physic, dressing habits to Suella Braverman and she like Suella was also of portuguese origin.

[@stevejames6674]

I understand that your bosses and owners won't let you be positive about Labour's serious attempts to bring normality to governance. So keep on talking about the headbanging irrelevants. But you could be a bit patriotic occassionally

[@chrisdickens4268]

Witha any luck the times will follow this party down the toilet

[@KevinIden]

How dose the PM think we could stop an envision from either China or Russia. When we can’t even stop illegal immigrants in small boats.

[@swanvictor887]

stop a what..?

[@GarethJones-yt1hr]

Richy was ok it was all the people around him

[@johnh1872]

Suella for me. She is conservative

[@chelloandra]

So it is a x-spat between two Boris left overs

[@taiwaich]

When’s the Nat C convention?

[@frankgreen1663]

Karma really is an incredible thing 😂

[@encoreunefois1X]

Battle of the sell-outs.

[@GarethJones-yt1hr]

If badenoch becomes tory leader I will leave the tory party

[@gregbrown8503]

You're still there?

[@56NeilWatson]

They have only each other to bully now

[@1dkappe]

Looks like a really bad storyline from Bridgerton.

[@KevinMole-cj3kl]

This lot are going nowhere both unelectable kemi pretending not to know more bs from the tories still lying and not learning

[@user-oo6ef4ho4r]

You two think troublemaker is ehat this country needs after the last 14 years?

[@jimthompson9370]

Lazy hack journalism.

[@yabiggalla]

when two tribes go to war....

[@kevonslims7269]

Is badernoch and braverman the best the torries can do?

[@TomWard-wo1rz]

Still moaning !

[@Crouchy232323]

The best of England. They should join Nigel Farage and Reform to get are country back. Hopefully Lord Mandelson joins too

[@swanvictor887]

I have a nasty feeling your comment wasn't sarcasm....!

[@Crouchy232323]

@@swanvictor887 you think it's funny what they have did done to are country? The only bright spot is getting Wes Streeting into power.

[@billkingston4402]

Who cares

[@brucerosner3547]

Are you really going to discuss every Conservative party squabble for 6 months? Give us a break.

[@prodigygirl1]

We want an English person to run our parties.

[@user-tb4tt7jx2f]

If kemi badenoch is leader of Tory’s will never vote for them again Suella braverman for me

[@albertthomas25]

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[@cupguin]

Why are people so insistent that being blunt is the same thing as honest? They literally go from how people are doubting her honesty to gushing about how honest she is. Except for the former there's an explanation for why people are doubting her words and for the latter it's because she's mildly unconventional. We have her on record lying and yet, she straight talking so she must be honest.

[@31Blaize]

Same grift as Farage. Lies through his teeth but people claim he tells it like it is.