UK’s Suella Braverman resigns as interior minister after 43 days
Suella Braverman, UK home secretary, arriving at 10 Downing Street to attend a Cabinet meeting discussing the u-turn on the energy crisis, after Kwasi Kwarteng was sacked and replaced by Jeremy Hunt in London, United Kingdom on October 18, 2022.
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The U.K.’s Suella Braverman is resigning from her position as interior minister after just 43 days in the role, according to multiple reports Wednesday.
In a resignation letter posted to Twitter, Braverman said: “It is with the greatest regret that I am choosing to tender my resignation.”
In the letter, she said she had sent an official document — a draft written ministerial statement that had not been published — from her personal email to a parliamentary colleague in order to get support for her policy. This, she said, “constitutes a technical infringement of the rules.”
The departure is the latest surprise turn of events for the U.K.’s Conservative Party, whose government led by Prime Minister Liz Truss has come under increasing fire for throwing markets into turbulence and drastically changing policy plans within the span of a few days.
Braverman ran against Truss for the Conservative leadership race this summer but was knocked out in an early stage. She has held past roles as Attorney General, from 2020 to 2022, and in the ‘Brexit’ department in 2018.
In her short time as Home Secretary, beginning with the Truss government on Sept. 6, she has made headlines for outspoken comments on reducing net migration, affirming the controversial policy of deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda, and just this morning defending the government’s Public Order Bill.
It comes at a hugely turbulent time for the government, with Truss under intense pressure to resign just two months into her premiership after a budget on Sept. 23 sparked chaos in financial markets.
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