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Suella Braverman faced mounting pressure for her provocative remarks on migrants, protesters, police, and the homeless.
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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak brought back former leader David Cameron as foreign minister in a reshuffle triggered by his firing of interior minister Suella Braverman after her criticism of the police threatened his authority.
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On November 4, she had claimed that those sleeping on streets, are only doing so because it is a "lifestyle choice"
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Cameron returns to the political front line after he quit in 2016 when he failed to keep Britain in the European Union. It's rare for a former leader, and a non-lawmaker, to take a senior government post.
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Sunak has also already lost three cabinet ministers to scandals over ethical breaches. He has staked his re-election hopes on both a record of delivery and a reputation for accountability. But firing Braverman could turn a key wing of the Conservatives demanding tough immigration laws against Sunak
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Sanjay Bhandari is accused of concealing overseas assets, using backdated documents, benefiting from the assets not declared to the Indian tax authorities and then falsely informing the authorities that he did not possess any overseas assets.
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UK home secretary Suella Braverman has spoken about the number of dependants that international students get with them, raising fears of changes being introduced to the student visa regime.
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The Indian-origin minister is in France to finalise the new arrangement, which will also see specialist UK officers embedded with their French counterparts for the first time as part of the new financial agreement.
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The Indian-origin barrister was reappointed by newly appointed Britain's Indian-origin Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Tuesday, leading to growing calls for her resignation.
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This is exactly what we saw when Kamala Harris became the vice-president of the US.
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Appointing Suella Braverman as Home Secretary has created Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s first political and policy challenge
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Rishi Sunak’s UK government is in talks with India over whether to increase the number of business visas granted to Indian nationals as part of a potential trade deal, a stance that risks causing friction in the new prime minster’s top team.
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On his first full day as Prime Minister, Sunak met his new Cabinet on Wednesday before facing opposition leader Keir Starmer in Prime Minister Questions (PMQs) in the House of Commons.
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Braverman, who's scathing resignation letter precipitated Liz Truss' exit from Downing Street last week, is a fellow Bexiteer like Sunak.
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Braverman, the London-born daughter of a Goan-origin father and Tamil-origin mother, herself made a leadership bid in the last leadership election before throwing her weight behind Truss.
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Suella Braverman's comments on woke politics and refugees came back to haunt her after she resigned as the UK home secretary.
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In a later official statement, it was confirmed that former transport minister Grant Shapps had been appointed interior minister in place of Braverman.
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The "disrespectful" comments left the Indian ministers and officials "shocked and dismayed", according to media reports.
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The Indian High Commission in the UK has begun enforcing a rule that requires British citizens attend visa centres in-person, causing wait times for tourists looking to travel to India.
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The Indian-origin Cabinet minister seems to be poised for a direct clash with British Prime Minister Liz Truss, who is keen to stick to the looming October 24 timeline for the FTA and is well aware that the ease of movement of students and professionals is crucial to India's objectives as part of a new trade deal.
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Expressing concerns over what the Home Secretary feared would be an “open borders” migration policy in an interview with ‘The Spectator’ on Thursday, the senior minister seemed to indicate that she would not offer Cabinet backing to a trade deal that offers India greater visa concessions.
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Braverman said new Prime Minister Liz Truss's government aimed to stick to a 2019 election pledge to lower net migration in an interview ahead of the ruling Conservative Party's annual conference.
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Suella Braverman, a member of the Conservative Party, was appointed UK’s Secretary of State for the Home Department
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Rishi Sunak, Suella Braverman, Priti Patel and Shailesh Vara are all ‘twice migrants’ - their grandparents and parents moved from South Asia to East Africa and finally the UK.
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A second round of voting among Conservative MPs has whittled the candidates in the running to replace Boris Johnson as leader down to five.
