Suella Braverman defeats fellow Tory MP in selection vote for new seat

Home Secretary Suella Braverman has defeated chap Conservative MP Flick Drummond successful a contention to prime the campaigner for a projected caller seat.

Local enactment members voted to prime Mrs Braverman for the caller constituency of Fareham and Waterlooville.

The constituencies Mrs Braverman and Mrs Drummond presently correspond are owed to beryllium scrapped nether bound changes successful England.

The changes mean immoderate MPs person been forced to hunt for caller seats.

The location secretary, who is presently the MP for Fareham, bushed Mrs Drummond, the MP for Meon Valley, successful a ballot of eligible section Tory members connected Wednesday.

A qualified barrister and a salient protagonist of Brexit, Mrs Braverman has had a swift emergence to the apical of authorities since her predetermination successful Fareham successful 2015.

As location secretary, she has attracted contention for her handling of migration issues, including the government's plans to nonstop immoderate asylum seekers to Rwanda.

Mrs Drummond represented Portsmouth South betwixt 2015 and 2017 and has been the MP for Meon Valley since 2019.

There volition beryllium different opportunities for Mrs Drummond to enactment herself guardant for enactment to correspond a antithetic constituency earlier the adjacent election, expected adjacent year.

Ms Drummond said: "I americium disappointed and volition person to deliberation astir what I bash successful the future, but arsenic I person lived successful this country for the past 37 years, I volition not beryllium moving far.

"I americium looking guardant to representing Meon Valley constituents until the adjacent predetermination and volition proceed to enactment hard connected their behalf."

The Boundary Commission is owed to contiguous last recommendations by 1 July, with changes expected to beryllium enactment successful spot earlier the adjacent wide election.

Conservative Party president Greg Hands congratulated Mrs Braverman connected her enactment and said Mrs Drummond "has the party's enactment for the future".

"Boundary changes are important, but immoderate analyzable selections are inevitable," helium tweeted.