Suella Braverman has finally been sacked as Home Secretary after a week of mounting tension over her position. She has released a statement saying “it has been the greatest privilege of my life to serve as home secretary”, adding: “I will have more to say in due course.”
Rishi Sunak has come close to sacking her before, but the decision will still not have been easy. Last week, I wrote of the Prime Minister’s political headache over Braverman: as she enjoys the support of a faction of the Tory party that never wanted Sunak as PM, getting rid of her was seen as too risky.
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