Suella Braverman cut out of immigration reform planning as PM prepares to relax visa rules

HOME Secretary Suella Braverman has been cut out of immigration reform planning as the PM prepares to relax visa rules as part of her growth push.

Tory MPs with concerns about local businesses being short-staffed have been told to go to the Cabinet Office and Business Department rather than the Home Office in a snub to Ms Braverman.

Broadband engineers, butchers and care workers are all in line for the visa bonanza — as the Treasury tells No 10 it is the quickest way to go for growth.

On Tuesday the PM let rip at squabbling Cabinet Ministers for publicly breaking ranks on the mini-Budget.

She read the riot act to her top team at just their second meeting following an astonishing collapse of discipline where several broke ranks to urge her to keep benefits in line with inflation.

One source said of chief agitator and former leadership contender, Penny Mordaunt, who was one of those who spoke out last week: “She spent the whole time looking up at the ceiling instead.”

Ms Mordaunt said last week that she backed “benefits keeping pace” with inflation – and the government should not “try to help people with one hand and take away with another.”

The PM was said to have been “frustrated” by her intervention.

Government insiders blamed new Chief Whip, Wendy Morton, for failing to enforce Cabinet discipline – just four weeks into the new Government – saying she’s not spent enough time meeting MPs.

One source said: “It’s important that the Chief Whip proactively meets colleagues, and gets the chance to hear their feedback or concerns on the government’s agenda, before she asks them to vote on it.

“If she is learning from the papers that MPs are unhappy about government policy, that needs to urgently change.”

Meanwhile, Ms Braverman has been accused by Tory moderates of freelancing on immigration policy and running her own leadership campaign inside the Home Office.

A source told The Sun: “It is clear that there is widespread frustration in Government and in the Party with Suella’s freelancing and her consistent blocking of the Government agenda.

“She is running a blatant leadership campaign but it’s having a destabilising effect on the Government. She needs to focus on the day job and stop her antics otherwise she won’t last very long.”