- Sat Sep 12, 2020 7:25 pm
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Probably worth her own thread.
Interesting suggestions in here of IDS-style exaggeration of her life before politics.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... -braverman
Interesting suggestions in here of IDS-style exaggeration of her life before politics.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... -braverman
When she moved on to a large set of Birmingham barristers, her profile boasted that she was a “contributor to Philip Kolvin QC’s book Gambling for Local Authorities, Licensing, Planning and Regeneration (2007)”. Not much to boast about to you and me, but in the legal world it would be considered a significant achievement for a young lawyer to be a part of an authoritative legal textbook. Unfortunately, Braverman’s name does not appear anywhere in the volume.
The Conservative press built her up as a Premier League barrister rather than a jobbing lawyer who did everyday parole and immigration cases. She had defended “the Ministry of Defence in the Guantánamo Bay inquiry”, according to reports. . Her own website says she was “involved”.
Private Eye has tried, I have tried and lawyers have tried to find a record of her defending the MoD at a Guantánamo inquiry. We are still trying.