• Home Secretary Suella Braverman reportedly took hours to reveal that a top-secret email had been compromised.
• The Home Secretary was reinstated in government just 10 days after leaving due to a security violation.
• She claims she “rapidly reported” the error to officials.

According to reports, Suella Braverman instructed a mysterious individual to “remove and disregard” a top-secret communication.

The Home Secretary reportedly took hours to disclose the issue, despite being reinstated in government just 10 days after leaving due to a security violation.

Despite Braverman’s assertion that she “rapidly reported the error to officials,” it still happened.

The claimed communication was shown to Michael Gove, the new levelling up secretary, this morning on the Laura Kuenssberg show.

Mr. Gove asserted that Braverman is “definitely” an upright politician and that it is “common practice” to request that someone “remove and ignore” the top-secret material.

The Home Secretary said that she reported her error right away, however the Cabinet member was questioned about this and was handed an email from Ms. Braverman asking, “Can you remove the message and ignore?”

“I’m sure there would be all kinds of inferences that people may take,” he continued, “but it would appear to me on the basis of the facts that I know.”

It would have been perfectly acceptable for the Home Secretary to have instructed the recipient of an error-filled message to “please do delete and ignore it.”

“That is customary procedure.”

It’s not as though the message was tossed out into the ether to random people, he said, because it was meant for another lawmaker.

When asked if Ms. Braverman is an honest politician, Mr. Gove responded, “Absolutely.”

“I am satisfied, more than satisfied, that Suella is now in a position to carry out the work she is committed to carrying out after resigning, accepting responsibility, apologizing, and then receiving assurances that returning to office was the right thing from the Cabinet Secretary and the Prime Minister.”

He continued by saying that Braverman was up against it because she was “brave” and “making changes,” and he rejected requests to make the records pertaining to her security violation public.

‘It is always the case that any politician like Suella who is daring and who’s making reforms… would unavoidably meet some criticism,’ he said on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Keunsberg program.

Only if you are above the target do you take fire.

The former journalist commented on the focus on the issue, saying, “It becomes a distraction if people are asking these things.”

In response to a question about Labor’s demands that the Government disclose details about the sequence of events, Mr. Gove said: “When you are dealing with national security measures, then it will often be the case that there is information that you cannot share because that might compromise national security, or the efficient operation of government.

“I also want to make sure that we don’t rush to judgement in a way that would appear to me to be wrong on the basis of the incomplete material that is in the public domain.”

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