UK Home Secretary Resigns As Pressure Mounts On PM Liz Truss

UK Home Secretary has resigned as pressure mounts on PM Liz Truss.

Eko Hot Blog reports that the United Kingdom (UK) Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, has resigned as pressure mounts on the government of Prime Minister Liz Truss.

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Braverman’s resignation is the latest in a series of setbacks for Truss after she succeeded Boris Johnson as PM in September.

The immediate past home secretary had spent only seven weeks in her role.

She was forced to resign over the use of a personal email address that breached ministerial rules.

Braverman said she “sent an official document from my personal email to a trusted parliamentary colleague as party of policy engagement.”

“This constitutes a technical infringement of the rules,” she wrote in her resignation letter.

The letter was also critical of Truss’s leadership, indicating deep fissures in the heart of her government.

“The business of government relies upon people accepting responsibility for their mistakes. Pretending we haven’t made mistakes, carrying on as if everyone can’t see that we have made them, and hoping that things will magically come right is not serious politics,” Braverman wrote.

“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 serious concerns about this Government’s commitment to honoring manifesto commitments.”

Truss accepted Braverman’s resignation, saying “it is important that the ministerial code is upheld, and that cabinet confidentiality is respected.”

She immediately appointed Grant Shapps as Braverman’s replacement in the Home Office, according to Downing Street.

The Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP @grantshapps has been appointed Secretary of State for the Home Department @ukhomeoffice. pic.twitter.com/z1xKhgwVJW

— UK Prime Minister (@10DowningStreet) October 19, 2022

Braverman’s departure comes amid growing pressure on Truss, who has been forced to abandon a radical fiscal agenda she has had to apologise for.

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Only five days ago, the PM fired her Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, over the mini-budget, which sparked a collapse in the value of the pound and forced the Bank of England to intervene to calm markets.

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