Suella Braverman: UK Interior Minister With Kenyan Mother Fired
Sunak's office had confirmed that Braverman left her job as part of a cabinet shuffle ahead of a general election expected next year.
Marvin Chege 
United Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday, November 13 fired controversial Interior Minister Suella Braverman, a politician whose mother is from Kenya.
Sunak's office had confirmed that Braverman left her job as part of a cabinet shuffle ahead of a general election expected next year.
Following her dismissal, Braverman said “it has been the greatest privilege of my life to serve as home secretary. I will have more to say in due course".
She was under fire for accusing police of being too lenient with pro-Palestinian protesters.
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. /FILE
Sunak had come under growing pressure to axe Braverman, an outspoken right-winger after critics accused her of heightening tensions during weeks of contentious pro-Palestinian demonstrations and counterprotests in Britain.
Braverman, who was appointed to the post when Sunak became prime minister on October 25, 2022, was replaced by Foreign Secretary James Cleverly. In turn, Cleverly’s old job was assigned to former Prime Minister David Cameron.
The politician had stoked controversy throughout her tenure, taking a hardline stance on immigration in particular and regularly wading into so-called culture wars issues which are seen as dividing the electorate.
The right-winger attacked her critics as liberal “tofu-eating wokerati” while saying shortly after she was appointed that sending asylum seekers to Rwanda was her “dream” and “obsession”.
However, her position became increasingly untenable after she last week wrote an explosive newspaper article, apparently without Sunak’s approval, accusing police of bias towards left-wing causes.
It was blamed for stoking tensions ahead of a weekend of protests over Israel’s war in Gaza, which were accompanied by violence by far-right counter-protestors, and prompted calls for her to be sacked.
Braverman is a British politician and barrister who served as the Attorney General for England and Wales from 2020 to March 2021. She became a Member of Parliament (MP) for Fareham in 2015. A member of the Conservative Party, she chaired the European Research Group (ERG) from June 19, 2017, to January 9, 2018.
In the January 2018 cabinet reshuffle, Braverman was appointed parliamentary under-secretary of state for exiting the European Union by Prime Minister Theresa May.
In November 2018 she resigned in protest against May's draft Brexit withdrawal agreement prior to her appointment as attorney general for England and Wales and advocate general for Northern Ireland by former Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the February 2020 cabinet reshuffle; she was appointed as Queen's Counsel automatically on her appointment.
Following Johnson's announcement of his resignation in July 2022, Braverman stood as a candidate to succeed him in the July–September Conservative Party leadership election but she was eliminated from the ballot after the second round of voting.
She subsequently supported Liz Truss's bid to become Conservative leader and was appointed home secretary on September 6, 2022, when Truss became prime minister.
Braverman resigned as home secretary on October 19, 2022, following criticism for breaching the Ministerial Code by sending a sensitive official document to a political ally using her email address. Six days later, she was reinstated as home secretary by Truss's successor Rishi Sunak before her current dismissal.
Braverman was born to Christie and Uma Fernandes, of Indian origin, who had moved to Britain in the 1960s from Kenya and Mauritius. Her mother was a nurse and a councillor in Brent and her father, of Goan ancestry in South India, worked for a housing association.
She was born in Harrow, Greater London, and grew up in Wembley. She attended the Uxendon Manor Primary School in Brent and the fee-paying Heathfield School, Pinner, on a partial scholarship, after which she studied law at Queens' College, Cambridge.
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