Suella Braverman | |
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Secretary of State for the Home Department | |
In office 25 October 2022 – 13 November 2023 | |
Prime Minister | Rishi Sunak |
Preceded by | Grant Shapps |
Succeeded by | James Cleverly |
In office 6 September 2022 – 19 October 2022 | |
Prime Minister | Liz Truss |
Preceded by | Priti Patel |
Succeeded by | Grant Shapps |
Attorney General for England and Wales Advocate General for Northern Ireland | |
In office 10 September 2021 – 6 September 2022 | |
Prime Minister | Boris Johnson |
Preceded by | Michael Ellis |
Succeeded by | Michael Ellis |
In office 13 February 2020 – 2 March 2021 | |
Prime Minister | Boris Johnson |
Preceded by | Geoffrey Cox |
Succeeded by | Michael Ellis |
Minister on Leave | |
In office 2 March 2021 – 10 September 2021 | |
Prime Minister | Boris Johnson |
Interim | Michael Ellis[a] |
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union | |
In office 9 January 2018 – 15 November 2018 | |
Prime Minister | Theresa May |
Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | Kwasi Kwarteng |
Chair of the European Research Group | |
In office 19 June 2017 – 9 January 2018 | |
Deputy | Michael Tomlinson |
Preceded by | Steve Baker |
Succeeded by | Jacob Rees-Mogg |
Deputy Chair of the European Research Group | |
In office 20 November 2016 – 19 June 2017 Serving with Michael Tomlinson | |
Chair | Steve Baker |
Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | Michael Tomlinson |
Member of Parliament for Fareham and Waterlooville Fareham (2015–2024) | |
Assumed office 7 May 2015 | |
Preceded by | Mark Hoban |
Majority | 6,079 (12.1%) |
Personal details | |
Born | Sue-Ellen Cassiana Fernandes 3 April 1980 Harrow, London, England |
Political party | Conservative (2002–present) |
Spouse |
Rael Braverman (m. 2018) |
Children | 2 |
Alma mater | |
Signature | ![]() |
Website | suellabraverman |
Sue-Ellen Cassiana "Suella" Braverman KC (/suˈɛlə ˈbrævərmən/;[1] née Fernandes; born 3 April 1980) is a British politician and barrister who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Fareham and Waterlooville, previously Fareham, since 2015. She served as Home Secretary from 6 September 2022 to 19 October 2022, and again from 25 October 2022 to 13 November 2023. A member of the Conservative Party, she was chair of the European Research Group from 2017 to 2018 and Attorney General for England and Wales from 2020 to March 2021, and again from September 2021 to 2022.
In the January 2018 cabinet reshuffle, Braverman was appointed parliamentary under-secretary of state for exiting the European Union by Prime Minister Theresa May. In November 2018, she resigned in protest against May's draft Brexit withdrawal agreement. Braverman was appointed attorney general for England and Wales and advocate general for Northern Ireland by Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the February 2020 cabinet reshuffle; she was appointed as Queen's Counsel automatically on her appointment.
Following Johnson announcing his resignation in July 2022, Braverman stood as a candidate to succeed him in the July–September Conservative Party leadership election; she was eliminated from the ballot after the second round of voting. She subsequently supported Liz Truss's bid to become Conservative leader, and was appointed home secretary on 6 September 2022 when Truss became prime minister. Braverman resigned as home secretary on 19 October 2022 following public claims that she had broken the Ministerial Code after having sent a Cabinet document using her personal email address. Six days later, she was reinstated as home secretary by Truss's successor Rishi Sunak. She was dismissed from her post by Sunak in the November 2023 British cabinet reshuffle.
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