UK Home Secretary Sacked After Defying Tory PM

The BBC reports:

Suella Braverman has been sacked as home secretary, after she defied No 10 over an article accusing the Metropolitan Police of bias in the policing of protests. Mrs Braverman was accused of stoking tension ahead of protests in London.

James Cleverly has been announced as her replacement, with former prime minister David Cameron unexpectedly replacing him as foreign secretary. She said serving as home secretary was “the greatest privilege of my life”.

She lost her job following days of a political firestorm sparked when she wrote an article for the Times newspaper, accusing the police applying a “double standard”, by taking a tougher stance with right-wing demonstrations. It later emerged Mrs Braverman had defied a Downing Street request to tone the article down.

Read the full article. Braverman last appeared here when she declared that being LGBTQ was not grounds for seeking asylum in the UK.

“It has been the greatest privilege of my life to serve as home secretary,” Suella Braverman says, after being sacked by PM Rishi Sunakhttps://t.co/GWHtKpPAPU

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