By Stefan Boscia
Suella Braverman has become the second senior cabinet minister to be sacked from Liz Truss’ government in less than a wek, after being forced out over a security breach.
Braverman was asked to resign by Liz Truss this afternoon, first reported by The Guardian, after she sent an official Home Office document to a backbench MP – a breach of the ministerial code.
Braverman said that the content of the document was already widely known to MPs, but that it was “right for me to go”.
She also launched a thinly veiled attack on Truss’ faltering premiership in the letter, writing that “pretending we haven’t made mistakes, carrying on as if everyone can’t see that we have made them, and hoping things will magically come right is not serious politics”.
Former transport secretary Grant Shapps, who was just two weeks ago openly plotting Truss’ downfall, is expected to be appointed as the new home secretary today.
Braverman’s exit means two of the three most senior cabinet ministers in Truss’ government have been sacked in the past week, after Kwasi Kwarteng was pushed out as chancellor on Friday.
Braverman is one of the leaders of the party’s Brexiteer right faction and has caused anger among moderates for her recent inflammatory statements on immigration.
She made headlines yesterday for saying it was the “Guardian reading, tofu-eating wokerati” who were at fault for Just Stop Oil protesters holding up traffic this week.
Tory MP Bob told LBC that he was “bemused as everyone else is” in reaction to the news.
“I want to apologise – I’m getting really fed up with this soap opera drama, like the rest of us,” he said.
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