Suella Braverman, the Conservative party MP and the UK’s home secretary, is not a politician afraid of being a lightning rod for criticism. But despite support from some colleagues, friend and foe probably agree with the refrain by Yvette Cooper, her opposition Labour party counterpart: “No other home secretary would ever have done this.” In a year-long stint leading the home office, Britain’s interior ministry, it is arguable that Braverman has stoked more political rows than any predecessor. Subjects as varied as the supposed bias of police, which is raging now, to homelessness, sexual abuse, golly dolls and “the tofu-eating...