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Suella Braverman has taken a fresh swipe at Rishi Sunak, claiming her attempts to lower legal migration were ‘blocked’.
The former home secretary, who is expected to stand in the Tory leadership race, said she ‘made the case’ but the then-prime minister did not agree with her.
It comes after Mr Sunak was said to have personally called all 175 colleagues who lost their seats last week to apologise.
Today Mrs Braverman told GB News that Mr Sunak had given her an assurance that he would ‘work with me to lower legal migration and cut the number of visas’.
But she said: ‘Unfortunately, I was blocked… I just wanted to deliver a manifesto commitment to lower overall migration.