Get a grip, Westminster – Suella Braverman speeding is hardly the issue of the day | Simon Jenkins

There are many reasons the home secretary may not be right for the job, but this inflated drama isn’t one of them

Trivial is the default mode of British politics. Whether or not the home secretary did ask civil servants and an aide to help her get out of a group speed-awareness course, and if she did, whether she was right to do so, is not the most urgent issue of the day. Yet, as MPs this week gathered round the Westminster village pump, it pushed immigration, the NHS, Ukraine and the G7 off the...