SIX DOCUMENTS AT HEART OF THE EMAIL SCANDAL
HERE are the six documents a Home Office review found Suella Braverman sent to her personal email address:
●●8.46am on September 15: Papers and briefing for a ministerial meeting on illegal/legal migration. She attended an 8.45am “virtual pre-brief meeting” while in transit.
●●2.10pm September 19: Papers and briefing for a 2.15pm virtual meeting on recent protest activity and public disorder.
●●10.49am September 30: Media briefing ahead of a virtual newspaper interview while off site.
●●3.22pm October 5: Papers and briefing sent while in transit for a 5pm virtual meeting that was subsequently cancelled.
●●6.44pm October 14: Submission on protest activity that was the subject of a virtual ministerial meeting. The meeting was due to take place on the morning of Saturday, October 15 but was postponed until the following day.
●●8.07am October 16: Briefing for the same virtual ministerial meeting on protest activity.
The documents do not include the draft written ministerial statement sent by the Home Secretary from her personal address on October 19 which led to her resignation.
She asked her special adviser to send that document to her personal address because she was travelling back from a police raid at the time. Ms Braverman then sent it on from that email account.
Giving details of the Home Office probe into her use of her personal email address, Ms Braverman said: “The review confirmed that all of these occasions occurred in circumstances when I was conducting Home Office meetings virtually or related to public lines to take in interviews.”
Other than the incident which triggered her resignation, she insisted she had not used her personal email to send official Home Office documents to “other people outside of government”.
Ms Braverman said she had sent official documents to her personal account so that if she was attending virtual meetings using the camera of her work phone she could still see the papers needed.