Suella Braverman

Braverman resigns over a 'technical infringement', sending Liz Truss's embattled premiership further into turmoil.

“One: it could be that the prime minister, who posted on Twitter that it’s important the ministerial code is upheld and cabinet confidentiality is respected, and accepted the resignation … “I have concerns about the direction of this government. That could be the way it’s going to be portrayed,” he said. But it’s more uncertainty, it’s more instability.” “I accept your resignation and respect the decision you have made. Hunt had backed Truss’s rival for leadership, Rishi Sunak.

At Conservative party conference, Braverman told delegates it was her “dream” and “obsession” that one day she would as home secretary see a flight take off to ...

In a resignation letter, Braverman made public her criticisms of the current government’s immigration strategy. She was made QC at the time of this appointment. In February 2018, she married Rael Braverman, a manager at Mercedes, at the House of Commons. She resigned after the then Brexit secretary, Dominic Raab, walked out in disagreement over May’s proposed divorce deal with the European Union. And she might well have been paving the way for another attempt. Braverman won a partial scholarship to attend Heathfield private school before studying law at Queens’ College, Cambridge.

Suella Braverman has resigned as home secretary after sending an official document to a parliamentary colleague using her personal email. · Dear Prime Minister, · It is with the greatest regret that I am choosing to tender my resignation.

I am very grateful to all of my officials, special advisers and ministerial team for all of their help during my time as Home Secretary. In even the brief time that I have been here, it has been very clear that there is much to do, in terms of delivering on the priorities of the British people. I especially would like to pay tribute to the heroic policemen and women and all those who work at Border Force and in our security services. You oversaw the largest ever ceremonial policing operation, when thousands of officers were deployed from forces across the United Kingdom to ensure the safety of the Royal Family and all those who gathered in mourning for Her Late Majesty The Queen. I have concerns about the direction of this government. As Home Secretary I hold myself to the highest standards and my resignation is the right thing to do.

The UK newspaper front pages cover a tumultuous day in politics with accusations of bullying in the Commons and the home secretary's resignation.

The Express also highlights what it calls ‘“disgraceful” Commons scenes’ under the headline “Beyond belief! The Sun headline simply reads “Broken”. The Mail splashes with “Suella’s 90-minute shouting match with Liz”.

Tory MPs demand assurance that home secretary's departure was not due to row over policy changes.

“We’ve got the third home secretary in seven weeks. Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, told the Commons Tory MPs were “fighting like rats in a sack”. Asking an urgent question in the Commons on the departure of Braverman, she said: “I notice there’s no home secretary this morning unless the member for Bassetlaw [Brendan Clarke-Smith] has been appointed home secretary in the last few hours? The email was deemed to have twice broken the ministerial code. She accidentally sent the document to a staff member of the Tory MP Andrew Percy, sources confirmed. “I am not convinced that cabinet, government and No 10 were totally behind the previous home secretary.”

A minister insisted he was not there to discuss immigration policy and instead to discuss Suella Braverman's departure.

This is the reason the home secretary tended her resignation. It is also not information that should necessarily be in the public domain either.” Scott Benton, Conservative MP for Blackpool South, said: “I was very disappointed to see the previous home secretary leave her role. “And it was strong and decisive leadership that received the resignation of the home secretary and then appointed another home secretary the same afternoon.” He said that amounted to a “contravention of the ministerial code relating to a breach of Cabinet confidentiality and the rules relating to the security of Government business”. But he added: “I am sure that the new Home Secretary (Grant Shapps) will come to the House, and I am sure he will be discussing that in line with the growth plan and our commitment to tackle immigration, at a future date.”

Exclusive: Prime minister Liz Truss met Braverman in the House of Commons.

Braverman was an outspoken critic of Truss’s U-turn on the top rate of tax, suggesting she thought the prime minister had fallen victim to a “coup” earlier this month. In a point of order in the Commons, Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, said: “This Tory government is falling apart at the seams. Her only modern rival for brevity in the role was Donald Somervell, who spent two months in the job in 1945 as part of Winston Churchill’s end-of-war caretaker government. There are also reports of major disputes about policy and we have had weeks of disagreements. One Tory MP said it seemed “very minor” and that most cabinet ministers had been guilty of the same thing. “Team Truss obviously handed her the revolver.” “She needs to thread the eye of a needle with the lights off, it’s that difficult,” he said. The security breach was met with raised eyebrows from some of Braverman’s backers. Braverman, in a brutal resignation letter that contrasted her actions with those of Truss, wrote: “Pretending we haven’t made mistakes, carrying on as if everyone can’t see that we have made them, and hoping that things will magically come right is not serious politics. She spoke to Braverman in her Commons office, according to insiders. I have concerns about the direction of this government. “Special advisers and ministers, including the PM, have done much much worse,” they said.

The news comes at a hugely turbulent time for the UK government, with Prime Minister Liz Truss under pressure to resign just two months into her ...

In what could also be read as a message to the embattled prime minister, Braverman said: "The business of government relies upon people accepting responsibility for their mistakes. Braverman said she was concerned about the breaking of key pledges to voters, though did not specifically highlight the recent U-turn on fiscal policy, instead citing pledges to reduce overall migration numbers and small boat crossings to the U.K. Brought in in a bid to calm markets and project an image of stability, Hunt has provoked rumor of being more in control of government than Truss and even a potential successor. In her short time as home secretary, beginning with the Truss government on Sept. This, she said, "constitutes a technical infringement of the rules." Braverman ran against Truss for the Conservative leadership race this summer but was knocked out in an early stage.

The official release of letters by Downing Street between a prime minister and a resigning member of the cabinet usually offer only the sparsest glimpses of ...

Significantly shorter in length and far from gushing about Braverman’s performance as home secretary, Truss ensures that it is known the home secretary is stepping down squarely because of her breach of the ministerial code. I accept your resignation and respect the decision you have made. Saying there is “much to do” suggests she thinks Truss’s government has run out of road and is incapable of delivering on its promised priorities. Truss has recently said she takes responsibility for the chaos caused. She left herself little wriggle-room and wholly accepted the mistake. Not so with the outgoing home secretary,

The resignation of a senior minister and anger over a vote on fracking pile even more pressure on the prime minister.

It's only happening because the Truss government messed things up more badly than anyone could have imagined.. something has to give". Former Brexit minister Lord David Frost - once an ally of Ms Truss - has written a piece in the Daily Telegraph calling on the prime minister to go. Many Conservatives have spoken out against bringing back fracking but they were told that the vote was being regarded as a vote of confidence in the prime minister and government. In her resignation letter, Ms Braverman acknowledged there had been "a technical infringement of the rules", adding: "I have made a mistake; I accept responsibility: I resign." She could decide the game is up - there is no indication, yet, that she is about to do that.

Liz Truss's ill-fated tenure as British Prime Minister was engulfed in yet more chaos on Wednesday when her Home Secretary resigned seven weeks into her ...

And it will result in yet more turnover at the heart of Britain’s government. Braverman competed in the Conservative Party leadership campaign during the summer, which was eventually won by Truss. He said it to the assembled crowd,” Rees-Mogg added. “I think to characterize it as bullying is mistaken,” he said. Shocking,” he said in a tweet. “I have concerns about the direction of this government,” Braverman said. Several Conservative British lawmakers told CNN they had “reservations” that the reason for Braverman’s resignation was limited to what she outlined in her letter – sending a draft ministerial statement from her personal email – and queried that it was a resignation offense. “The business of government relies upon people accepting responsibility for their mistakes. But he didn’t say it to anyone individually. Labour lawmaker Ian Murray described it as “open warfare,” where whips were seen “screaming at Tories. Opposition Labour Party lawmaker Anna McMorrin wrote on Twitter that she saw one Conservative lawmaker “in tears” being “manhandled into the lobby to vote against our motion to continue the ban on fracking.” Truss accepted Braverman’s resignation, saying “it is important that the ministerial code is upheld, and that cabinet confidentiality is respected,” she said in a letter.

In a letter to the prime minister, she said her resignation was due to sending official documents from her personal email.

She noted that it had been a great honour to serve as home secretary even though short. Good journalism costs a lot of money. “I rapidly reported this on official channels, and informed the Cabinet Secretary. This constitutes a technical infringement of the rules.” However, she said, it has been very clear that there is much to do, in terms of delivering on the priorities of the British people. As Home Secretary I hold myself to the highest standards and my resignation is the right thing to do,” she wrote.

Suella Braverman's parents have Indian origins and migrated to the UK in the 1960s. As a politician, she has defended British colonialism and taken a hard line ...

Meanwhile, around a quarter of all foreign students in the UK are from India,” she said at a Diwali event. While the deal was to be signed by Diwali, the deadline has now been pushed, and Barverman’s comments are seen as having played a role in that. As a politician, Braverman has defended British colonialism and taken a hard line on immigrants, supporting their deportation to Rwanda. She campaigned to leave the EU and served as a junior minister in the Brexit department under former PM Theresa May, but resigned in protest at her proposed Brexit deal, saying it did not go far enough in breaking ties with the bloc. She was appointed interior minister under Truss in September, along with Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, who was sacked on October 14. UK’s new interior minister will be Grant Shapps, who had not backed Truss for the PM post and was removed as transport minister when she came to power.

Suella Braverman quits, using her resignation letter to attack the government's "broken pledges".

regardless of what is happening in Westminster". Speaking as he arrived at the Home Office to start work, Mr Shapps said it was a "great honour" to be home secretary and praised the work of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt but didn't mention the prime minister. In response, Ms Truss wrote she was "grateful" to Ms Braverman adding: "Your time in office has been marked by your steadfast commitment to keeping the British people safe."