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Rishi Sunak has dismissed the controversial Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, following her defiance of the Prime Minister’s authority last week. A Downing Street official stated that Sunak requested Braverman to exit the government, and she accepted, marking a broader reshuffle on Monday.
Braverman faced criticism for her remarks characterizing rough sleeping as a “lifestyle choice” and her critique of the Metropolitan Police’s handling of recent pro-Palestinian protests. She referred to pro-Palestine marches as “hate marches” and, in a letter to The Times, drew parallels to past events in Northern Ireland, receiving widespread condemnation for being inflammatory and inaccurate.
Last week, Braverman’s future became uncertain as she defied Number 10’s instructions to temper an article comparing the pro-Palestinian Armistice Day rally to sectarian marches in Northern Ireland. She also appeared to challenge the operational independence of the Metropolitan Police by suggesting that, during the Covid-19 pandemic, police treated lockdown objectors differently from Black Lives Matter demonstrators.
Sunak was uncomfortable with Braverman’s statements on social media platform X (formerly Twitter), where she suggested that homeless individuals living in tents had made a “lifestyle choice.” This dismissal follows her resignation from the same position just 13 months ago due to a technical security breach involving her use of personal email for government business, forced by then-Prime Minister Liz Truss.
