Irish Examiner view: Sunak showing signs of sense

In the face of the ludicrous views expressed by his colleague, Suella Braverman, British prime minister Rishi Sunak is displaying a far more pragmatic approach. File picture

The assertion by British home secretary Suella Braverman that the massive delays encountered at Dover over the weekend by people waiting to travel to France were not caused by Brexit was wildly ludicrous, and rightly ridiculed by the country’s political opposition.

And yesterday, when a spokesman for Number 10 Downing Street was asked directly had Brexit contributed to the chaos at the Channel port and effectively admitted it had, Ms Braverman’s claim that it was due to a combination of bad weather and unusually high traffic volumes was made to look even more pathetic.