Suella Braverman says she has resigned after breaching rules by sending an official document from her personal email account.
Her departure comes days after Truss fired her Treasury chief, Kwasi Kwarteng, on Friday after the economic package the pair drew up spooked financial markets when it was announced on Sept. 23.
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Britain’s Suella Braverman has resigned as interior minister, saying she had to go
after she breached government rules but that she had concerns
over the direction of Prime Minister Liz Truss’s government.
The second senior minister to leave the government in
less than a week, Braverman’s departure on Wednesday heaps yet more pressure
on Truss as she fights to stay in power just over six weeks
after she entered Downing Street.
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“I have made a mistake, I accept responsibility; I
resign,” Braverman said in letter to Truss posted on Twitter.
She said she had sent an official document from her
personal email to a parliamentary colleague, adding that this
marked “a technical infringement of the rules” and that it was
therefore “right for me to go”.
Truss, who became prime minister on Sept. 6, initially
installed a cabinet of senior ministers who were loyal to her
libertarian wing of the Conservative Party.
But the launch of a now-scrapped economic programme
forced her to fire her finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng and
appoint Jeremy Hunt as his replacement. Hunt had backed Truss’s
rival for the leadership, Rishi Sunak.
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My letter to the Prime Minister. pic.twitter.com/TaWO1PMOF2
— Suella Braverman MP (@SuellaBraverman) October 19, 2022
‘Tumultuous time’
The Guardian reported that former transport minister Grant Shapps, who also backed Sunak, is now likely to replace Braverman.
Braverman, who also ran for the leadership of the party
before throwing her support behind Truss, had been a deeply
polarising figure during her short tenure.
She told the party’s annual conference earlier this
month that it was her “dream” to see a flight leaving Britain
carrying asylum seekers to Rwanda.
“It is obvious to everyone that we are going through a
tumultuous time,” Braverman said in the letter to Truss.
“I have concerns about the direction of this government. Not only have we broken key pledges that were promised to our voters, but I have had serious concerns about this government’s commitment to honouring manifesto commitments, such as reducing overall migration,” Braverman wrote.
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