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Suella Braverman has been sacked as home secretary as UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak took action following her unauthorised article criticising the way pro-Palestinian protests had been policed.
A No 10 source said the prime minister ‘asked Suella Braverman to leave Government and she has accepted’.
The Conservatives said Sunak is carrying out a wider reshuffle which ‘strengthens his team in Government to deliver long-term decisions for a brighter future’.
But sacking one of the leading figures on the Tory right could pose difficulties for the prime minister as he seeks to get his party united behind him and ready for a general election expected next year.
News of Braverman’s exit came as defence minister James Heappey was touring broadcast studios.
Minutes before she was sacked, he had told LBC that Sunak and his team in No 10 had been ‘very clear she (Braverman) has his confidence and, in that sense, one would imagine that she will continue’.
But he was told on air during an ITV Good Morning Britain interview that she had been sacked, leaving him to say: ‘Your viewers will be enjoying my discomfort, but it is in this case difficult to offer commentary when I just don’t know what is going on.’
Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey said: ‘Suella Braverman was never fit to be Home Secretary. Rishi Sunak knew this and he still appointed her.
‘It was the prime minister’s sheer cowardice that kept her in the job even for this long. We are witnessing a broken party and a broken Government, both of which are breaking this country.’
By David Hughes, PA Political Editor
Press Association: News
source: PA
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