United Kingdom Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, has sacked his Home Secretary, Suella Braverman after she disobeyed his authority recently.
An official in Downing Street said Sunak had asked Braverman to leave the government and she had accepted in what would be a wider reshuffle.
Braverman was sacked by Sunak after she triggered widespread anger with her comments on rough sleeping being a “lifestyle choice” and criticism of the way Metropolitan Police handled pro-Palestinian protests in recent days.
Braverman has persistently referred to pro-Palestine marches in London as “hate marches.” In the letter to The Times, she said that the protests were “disturbingly reminiscent” of past scenes in Northern Ireland comments widely condemned as both incendiary and inaccurate.
The future of Braverman was plunged into doubt when she defied Number 10’s instructions to tone down an article that compared the pro-Palestinian Armistice Day rally to sectarian marches in Northern Ireland.
Also, she appeared to undermine the operational independence of the Metropolitan Police by arguing in the write-up that, during the Covid-19 pandemic, lockdown objectors were “given no quarter” by police officers while Black Lives Matter demonstrators were “allowed to break rules”.
The Prime Minister was also uncomfortable with Braverman’s comments on social media platform X, that homeless people living in tents had taken a “lifestyle choice”.
She was sacked 13 months after she was compelled to resign from the same job by former Prime Minister Liz Truss for a technical security breach where she used her personal email to send official information.
