Former Tory leader denies ex-home secretary’s scathing letter to Sunak means party is ‘turning on itself again’

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Suella Braverman “will be forgotten”, the former Conservative party leader Michael Howard has declared.

Lord Howard criticised the “tirade of abuse” in Braverman’s letter to Rishi Sunak, but rejected claims that the former home secretary’s words had left the Conservative party “turning on itself again”.