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UK interior minister quits: Who is Suella Braverman, whose India remarks sparked row
By: Explained Desk
Suella Braverman was among the leaders in the race to replace Boris Johnson as UK Prime Minister earlier this year but lost in the second round. (Photo: AP)
Britain’s interior minister Suella Braverman quit on Wednesday, becoming the second senior cabinet minister to depart within a week.
While Braverman has resigned over a “technical” breach of government rules — she sent an official document from her personal email account — in her resignation letter, she also criticised Prime Minister Liz Truss, saying she had “concerns about the direction of this government”. UK’s new interior minister will be Grant Shapps, who had not backed Truss for the PM post and was removed as transport minister when she came to power.
Braverman had recently thrown a spanner in the works of the India-UK trade deal with her comments about Indian migrants overstaying their visas. Later, she in apparent course correction, she said “the story of India and the story of the UK are so intimately linked that they are to a great extent the same story.”