• Suella Braverman needs to retract her “insulting” statement.
• And apologies to state servants for accusing them.
• Of obstructing efforts to curb small boat crossings.

Suella Braverman needs to apologies to state servants for claiming that they were obstructing efforts to curb small boat crossings, according to a union head.

The home secretary allegedly accused government staff of belonging to a left-wing “activist blob” with the Labor Party in an email to Tory supporters.

No 10 said Ms. Braverman “did not see, sign off or sanction” the text.

Dave Penman, president of the FDA union, however, suggested that she retract the “insulting” statement and apologies to her colleagues.

Officials at the Home Office, he claimed, were “livid” to be accused of political bias and afraid that such “incendiary” language may make them targets for protestors.

The email, which promoted Ms. Braverman’s intentions to ban immigrants from landing in the UK on tiny boats, was distributed by the Conservative Party’s central office on Tuesday.

The statement read: “We attempted to halt the small boat crossings without amending our legislation.

But a group of left-leaning activists, including lawyers, employees, and members of the Labour Party, prevented us.

The statement, according to Mr. Penman, was “factually inaccurate” and a “direct attack on the integrity and impartiality of thousands of government officials who devotedly serve the Home Office,” he said in a letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

“This cowardly attack on civil servants, whom the home secretary knows are unable to publicly defend themselves, also risks further stoking tensions over a matter which has previously resulted in violent clashes with protesters,” said Mr. Penman.

He accused Ms. Braverman of breaking the ministerial code, which states that “ministers must uphold the the political impartiality of the civil service”.

The prime minister’s official spokeswoman said: “The home secretary did not see that email before it went out.”

She said Rishi Sunak had been “very clear….that he is grateful to work of both the cabinet secretary and civil servants in the Home Office and more widely in the government”.

Before Christmas, the prime minister “personally went over to the Home Office” to express his gratitude for their efforts on the small boats measures that were announced at the end of the previous year, the spokesperson continued.

She claimed Tuesday’s email was a “product” of Tory campaign headquarters and that they would “have to assess what happened operationally”.

“There would have to be ministerial sign-off usually on things where their name is included on it or it goes out in their name, but I think on this occasion there was obviously operationally the process was not followed.”

Mr. Penman, however, told media that the government’s decision to place the blame on the Conservative Party’s central office was “not good enough” and that Ms. Braverman should personally apologise to civil officials and retract the message.

A Conservative Party spokesperson said: “This was a CCHQ email and the wording wasn’t seen by the home secretary. We are now reviewing our internal clearance processes.”

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