Suella Braverman

Sources claim the Home Secretary has a 'chronology' of events that dispels doubts about what happened.

A source said she recognised it was wrong to have sent the document to the MP. At 8:30am, the recipient sent her a message saying that it had been sent in error. She tried to call Mrs Braverman, then went to the Home Secretary’s parliamentary office just after 11.30am. The document was a draft written ministerial statement related to immigration visas. It told the recipient of the confidential message to "delete and ignore" it. She was reappointed on Oct 25 by Rishi Sunak, the new Prime Minister.

London: Labour is urging the government to publish its assessments of Suella Braverman's security breach following her controversial reappointment as UK ...

Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said: “Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman cannot keep running away from these questions. “Labour will use every parliamentary mechanism open to force government to come clean over her reappointment, to get answers and to require detailed documents to be released to the Intelligence & Security Committee”, Sky News reported. Labour will try to push ministers to share risk assessments of this and other alleged leaks, as well as the information given to Sunak before he reinstalled her at the Home Office, with a “humble address” motion in Parliament.

Home secretary's allies say it took her several hours to alert cabinet secretary to 'error of judgment'

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The prime minister was aiming for discipline and unity in his new cabinet. So why did he allow the controversial home secretary to return days after ...

He faces the unenviable task of picking a combination of tax rises and spending cuts that will restore faith in Britain’s economy – but it will be a hard political sell, even to his own MPs. The economy will need higher immigration to secure growth and the NHS will also need more staff. Signed by Matthew Rycroft, permanent secretary, and Tricia Hayes, second permanent secretary, the email thanked Grant Shapps for his briefest of tenures and added: “Please join us in welcoming the home secretary back to the department and we look forward to working with her in delivering the government’s priorities.” Nonetheless, Paul Goodman, editor of ConservativeHome, said that despite the Braverman issue he remained hopeful: “The question now is whether the culture of dissent and division in the Conservative party runs so deep as to overwhelm Rishi Sunak. Nadine Dorries, the culture secretary who led calls for Johnson to return as leader as the Truss government fell apart, said that the prime minister was wrong not to go. Sunak wanted his new top team of ministers to be known and seen as a “unity cabinet”. Caroline Nokes, who chairs the Commons women and equalities committee, said there were “big questions hanging over this whole issue”, adding that “to be frank I would like to see them cleared up so that the home secretary can get on with her job”. Sunak – now home and dry – met the king on Tuesday last week, and was invited to form a government. Less remarked on was a somewhat cursory handshake that Sunak offered to Jake Berry, the Tory party chairman under Truss, who has long been close to Johnson. The message had also to be about restoration of standards and competence too. She was back as home secretary – despite the murky circumstances of her recent exit and amid talk of deals with the new PM. When Truss quit on Thursday 20 October after only seven weeks in the job – having already lost a chancellor and a home secretary – another leadership contest was triggered.

She was sacked by Liz Truss for committing two breaches of the ministerial code: one for sharing sensitive information outside the Government, another for doing ...

[Ms Braverman is a politician of integrity,](https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/tory-clash-suella-braverman-rishi-sunak-jake-berry-boris-johnson-1939188?ico=in-line_link) the minister said: “Absolutely. “She acknowledged that a mistake had been made. That is standard practice.” I am satisfied, more than satisfied, that in resigning, accepting responsibility, apologising, and then in being assured by the Cabinet Secretary and the Prime Minister that Suella coming back into office was the right thing, that Suella is now in a position to do the work that she is dedicated to doing.” Mr Gove told the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg programme Ms Braverman is “absolutely” a politician of integrity, and said her asking the recipient of a message sent in error to “ignore and delete” the email is “standard practice”. [Suella Braverman has been fiercely defended ](https://inews.co.uk/news/i-morning-briefing-what-fresh-issues-are-being-raised-about-suella-bravermans-appointment-1936953?ico=in-line_link)by Cabinet colleague Michael Gove, who has insisted the Home Secretary is a “first-rate, front-rank” politician [despite being sacked over a security breac](https://inews.co.uk/news/suella-braverman-why-resign-home-secretary-what-did-cabinet-security-breach-1934794?ico=in-line_link)h.

The home secretary has questions to answer about whether she was investigated for leaks for sensitive information regarding Northern Ireland and other ...

Asked if Ms Braverman is a politician of integrity, Mr Gove said: “Absolutely. “There’s also questions about whether she was investigated for other security leaks, including around a case involving the security service, and around a case involving sensitive legal advice around Northern Ireland.” “We think that the papers and the warnings that were provided by the Cabinet Office and by the Cabinet secretary to the prime minister should be sent to the Intelligence and Security Committee.

Suella Braverman, the home secretary, has been suspended from practising law in New York for failing to re-register as an attorney there for four years.

Ms Braverman quit as home secretary 10 days ago because she had breached security rules relating to email use. She was then reappointed by new Prime Minister ...

it goes to the heart of Rishi Sunak's error of judgment." Ms Braverman had sent the document to her own Gmail address, before sending it on. "These events need to be seen in the context of a very packed schedule. But a source close to Ms Braverman said around 12:00, she instructed officials to raise the breach with the cabinet secretary. Ms Morton then urgently tried to track down the home secretary to discuss the issue, it is understood. In her defence, the home secretary said "as soon as I realised my mistake I rapidly reported this on official channels".

Home Secretary Suella Braverman is under attack because she is driving change in the Home Office, her Cabinet colleague Michael Gove suggested yesterday.

The Levelling Up Secretary insisted the under-fire Home Secretary is a ‘first-rate, front-rank politician’ and is only taking ‘flak’ because she is ‘over the target’ His comments on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg came as it emerged that Mrs Braverman took hours to respond to an email warning her she had sent a confidential document to the wrong person The Levelling Up Secretary insisted the under-fire Home Secretary is a ‘first-rate, front-rank politician’ and is only taking ‘flak’ because she is ‘over the target’. Mrs Braverman was sent a message at around 8.30am on October 19 informing her she had sent an email in error an hour earlier, the broadcaster said. [BBC](/news/bbc/index.html)’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg came as it emerged that Mrs Braverman took hours to respond to an email warning her she had sent a confidential document to the wrong person. [Suella Braverman](/news/suella-braverman/index.html) is under attack because she is driving change in the Home Office, her Cabinet colleague [Michael Gove](/news/michael-gove/index.html) suggested yesterday.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: There is rich irony in the fact that Home Secretary Suella Braverman stands accused by the Whitehall Blob and others of being a serial ...

And instead of badmouthing her to the media, her officials might think about trying to help her. This campaign of vilification is reminiscent of the vitriol directed at her predecessor Priti Patel. A barrister herself, Mrs Braverman is well aware that the system must be streamlined. But she should be judged on her actions, not this flurry of malicious leaks. She also sent it in error to a researcher for another Conservative colleague. Yes, she used her personal email to share a Government policy document with a fellow MP.

Roger Gale says conditions at Manston processing centre in Kent constituency are 'wholly unacceptable'

In the Times on SaturdayMatt Dathan reported that “decisions made by Suella Braverman led directly to overcrowding and outbreaks of scabies and diphtheria at a migrant processing centre in Kent”. Gale said he thought the decision not to find more hotel accommodation for the people in Manson was taken by the home secretary, although he said he was not sure whether it was Suella Braverman, the current one, or Priti Patel, her main predecessor. That’s really not on because it puts peoples’ lives at risk crossing the Channel, and it also results in this uncontrolled amount of people arriving. Spencer said the allegation was “completely false”, but a report into what happened has not been published. What would happen was if it got to the point where people were getting worried about conditions we would sign off on more hotels.” And is this related to the fact that Suella Braverman, the home secretary, is an avid enthusiast for policies that might deter people from seeking asylum in the UK in the first place? In an interview on the Today programme Gale said that Manston was “overwhelmed” and that conditions there were “wholly unacceptable”. I try to monitor the comments below the line (BTL) but it is impossible to read them all. Jeremy Quin, a Cabinet Office minister, answered the one about her resignation instead, and Robert Jenrick, the immigration minister, picked up the one about Manston. Has the Home Office deliberately allowed conditions at Manston, the processing centre in Kent for people who cross the Channel on small boats, to deteriorate to the extent that it is described as something of a hell hole? The car crash was the decision not to book more hotel space. I was told that the Home Office was finding it very difficult to secure hotel accommodation.

Suella Braverman blocked the use of hotel rooms for migrants to "process them quickly", a minister has claimed.

But we need to make sure we’re getting the right people." Clearly he wants to concentrate on the financial statement and that's what he's doing, but if he's able to get through all of that, you know… "We have to break that model. It appears, I was told, that the Home Office was finding it very difficult to secure hotel accommodation. but she needs to be supported by Cabinet and the Prime Minister". The veteran Tory MP Sir Roger, who visited the processing centre yesterday, told ITV last night: "When I came here on Thursday and I spent the morning here on Tuesday, there were 2,500 people here. "Never mind Labour tabling the [urgent] question, I have already put in for a UQ and I hope the Speaker will grant that. "The Home Office, the civilian staff, the medical staff are doing a fantastic job under very difficult circumstances. "The small boats crisis is clearly out of control and an entirely fresh approach is now needed. However, its political toxicity aside, there is a compelling case to scrap the policy. The review also confirmed that on no other occasions had my Special Adviser emailed my personal account in relation to official business." They are demanding that the Government halts all new oil and gas consents and licences.

Tory MP piles pressure on Suella Braverman over 'wholly unacceptable' conditions at Manston immigration centre. The current situation in the migrant centre ...

The chief inspector of borders and immigration, David Neal, told MPs last week that he was shocked by the “wretched conditions” in the centre. Claire Pearsall, a former Tory adviser to ex-immigration minister Caroline Nokes, said the Home Secretary was unlikely to survive the week as a result of the revelations. Asked if Ms Braverman was the right person to be leading the Home Office, Sir Roger said he was not going to “point fingers”, but added: “I do believe, whoever is responsible, either the previous Home Secretary or this one, has to be held to account because a bad decision was taken and it has led to what I would regard as a breach of humane conditions.” The current situation in the migrant centre is a “breach of humane conditions”, a local Tory MP has said as he spoke of his frustration at the situation. [Sir Roger Gale, an outspoken Tory backbencher](https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/tory-mp-roger-gale-boris-johnson-dead-man-walking-byob-downing-street-party-apology-1396883?ico=in-line_link) who is often critical of the Government, said that around five weeks ago Manston was “working as it was intended” but it was “now broken and it’s got to be mended fast”. [Suella Braverman is coming under heavy scrutiny](https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/michael-gove-suella-braverman-email-security-breach-delete-ignore-1943060?ico=in-line_link) for her handling of worsening conditions at the [Manston asylum processing centre in Kent](https://inews.co.uk/news/dover-petrol-bombs-migrant-processing-centre-kent-coast-1943356?ico=in-line_link), which is severely overcrowded.

Suella Braverman is facing pressure from MPs about worsening conditions at a migrant processing centre in Manston.

The situation at a migrant facility in Kent is a “breach of humane conditions”, according to an MP for the area. Labour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said there had been a big increase in the backlog of cases. It’s not a residential facility.

An immigration watchdog said he was left 'speechless' by conditions at the Manston migrant processing centre in Kent. | ITV National News.

He suggested Ms Braverman is facing opposition because she is "brave" and "making changes." Labour, meanwhile, is demanding the government publish its assessments of Ms Braverman’s sharing of a sensitive document with a Tory backbencher from a personal email without permission. Mr Gove insisted this is "standard practice." “The situation in Manston is not what it should be,” he told Sky News’s Sophy Ridge On Sunday programme. “When we publish everything, we also potentially publish information that can compromise the effective operation, not just of government, but of national security itself,” he told the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg programme. We have more than 2,000 people there at the moment.”

According to latest reports, a centre in Kent is currently experiencing serious overcrowding, especially after 100s of migrants were moved there following the ...

However, she was forced to resign after just six weeks after she sent an official document from her personal email which is against the rules. She then become home secretary under [Liz Truss](/politics/parties/conservatives/liz-truss/)' government. Suella, 42, was born in Harrow in north-west London and grew up in Wembley with her parents, Uma and Christie Fernandes.

The Home Secretary was reappointed to the position by the new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak just six days after resigning for breaching the ministerial code.

Ms Braverman said: "I want the Home Affairs Select Committee to be reassured on the very important point about the nature of the document that I shared by mistake. In her dossier to the Home Affairs Committee, Ms Braverman outlined how the backbench Tory MP Sir John Hayes was the intended recipient of one of the emails sent from her personal email address. Much of the document had already been briefed to MPs - including Sir John - "at the request" of Ms Truss, although Ms Braverman acknowledged that "some sentences" had not been fully agreed by all departments. In a letter to the Home Affairs Committee on Monday after days of questions over her conduct, Ms Braverman outlined a timetable of events. She revealed that after her resignation the Home Office conducted a review of her personal email. The under-fire Cabinet minister made the astonishing admission in a letter to the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee - after days of questions over her conduct.

In a letter to the Home Affairs Select Committee, Suella Braverman apologised again for breaching security rules and set out her version of the events ...

This was not known to me until after these events." A review undertaken by the Home Office confirmed she had used her personal email address to send an official government document, and in her letter Ms Braverman added: "I had sent official documents from my government email to my personal email address on six occasions. Ms Braverman said when she realised she had sent the email to a staffer of MP Andrew Percy by accident, she "decided to inform my officials as soon as practicable". She said the reason for sending the documents to her personal phone - a breach of the ministerial code - was because she was often joining meetings virtually and while in transit. In a letter to the Home Affairs Select Committee, she apologised again for breaching security rules and set out her version of the events In a letter to the Home Affairs Select Committee, Suella Braverman apologised again for breaching security rules and set out her version of the events leading to her resignation under former prime minister Liz Truss.

The Home Secretary apologised for the breach in a letter to Dame Diana Johnson, the chairman of the home affairs select committee. The full letter relates to ...

It was not classified as SECRET or TOP SECRET.’ ‘The review also identified that within the period between 6th September and 19th October, I had sent official documents from my Government email to my personal email address on six occasions. ‘I also gave the Prime Minister assurances that I would not use my personal email for official business and reaffirmed my understanding of and adherence to the Ministerial Code.’ In her letter to Dame Diana Johnson, Braverman said the document she leaked was a four-page document was a draft written ministerial statement that contained ‘high level policy on illegal migration and legal migration proposals’ In a letter to the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee’s chairwoman Dame Diana Johnson, Ms Braverman apologised for the breach but admitted that she sent official documents from her government email to her personal email address on six occasions. The Home Secretary apologised for the breach in a letter to Dame Diana Johnson, the chairman of the home affairs select committee.

The home secretary apologised for breaching the ministerial code but claimed the documents “did not pose any risk to national security” and were not secret or ...

I don’t think she needs to be summoned. [Terms of use,](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/user-policies-a6184151.html) [Cookie policy](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/cookie-policy-a6184186.html) and [Privacy notice.](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/privacy-policy-a6184181.html) [Privacy policy](https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en) and [Terms of service](https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en) apply. “They mustn’t knowingly disobey or break the law. “If it was deliberate, it’s a very serious matter,” he said. In a letter to the chair of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee Suella Braverman outlined further details of the breach of the ministerial code which triggered her previous resignation. The home secretary today wrote to the committee to admit sending sensitive government information to her personal email account – in a scandal that led to her resignation in the final days of Liz Truss’s government. Suella Braverman is due to appear in the House of Commons later today after she gave further details of the breach of the ministerial code which triggered her resignation as home secretary under Liz Truss. The letter sent by Suella Braverman to the home affairs committee explaining her sending of official documents to her personal email account includes details of all six occassions she admitted to. [Priti Patel blames Braverman for failure to prevent Kent asylum crisis](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/manston-asylum-home-office-braverman-patel-b2214249.html) In a letter to the Home Affairs Select Committee, Ms Braverman detailed the “mistakes” which led her to resign as home secretary in the dying days of Liz Truss’s government. [Suella Braverman](/topic/suella-braverman) has [admitted](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/suella-braverman-leak-email-documents-manston-b2214260.html) sending official documents to her personal email address on six different occasions.

H. ome Secretary Suella Braverman has admitted sending official documents from her Government email to her personal address on six separate occasions. As she ...

"It's her job. There are now even more questions to be answered." “She has apologised both to the Prime Minister, to the MP involved, and she has set out details in the letter to the committee.” “As she makes clear, she made an error of judgement, she recognises that the approach she took was not right, and it was for those reasons that she felt it was right to resign. In the statement Ms Braverman said she "sent official documents from my Government email to my personal email address on six occasions". Ms Braverman also requested briefing and guidance by "security experts on what constitutes appropriate use of Government and personal IT", she said in a letter to the Home Affairs Select Committee.

Ex-home secretary makes known she booked hotel rooms to prevent overcrowding – posing question of why practice stopped under successor.

[Grant Shapps](/topic/grant-shapps), who was home secretary for six days until Ms Braverman’s shock return, is also making known he followed advice and began to book hotel rooms earlier this month. [Terms of use,](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/user-policies-a6184151.html) [Cookie policy](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/cookie-policy-a6184186.html) and [Privacy notice.](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/privacy-policy-a6184181.html) [Privacy policy](https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en) and [Terms of service](https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en) apply. [Home Office](/topic/home-office) has been accused by a Tory MP of [a “deliberate” decision to allow dangerous overcrowding](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/manston-asylum-home-office-roger-gale-b2214114.html) at the Manston site, possibly to send a harsh message to would-be refugees. [Rob Merrick](/author/rob-merrick) Comments [Priti Patel](/topic/priti-patel) is blaming her successor [Suella Braverman](/topic/suella-braverman) for the failure to take steps to prevent [the Kent asylum centre crisis](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/migrants-dover-kent-patel-letter-b1893669.html), piling further pressure on the home secretary.

Pressure is mounting on Home Secretary Suella Braverman over worsening conditions at an overcrowded migrant processing centre in Kent; Hundreds more people ...

They appear to be waiting in some kind of holding area. In the first image, children can be seen playing on a tennis court encircled by the metal barriers, with many facility workers wearing high-vis jackets watching on. This makes it the largest detention centre in Britain It's the issue that prompted her resignation as home secretary two weeks ago, before she was reappointed to the role by Rishi Sunak. We have blurred the children's faces to protect their identities. The Home Office says it "has taken urgent decisions to alleviate issues at Manston" and source alternative accommodation. And so the backlogs began to grow. The lowest number of claims was in 2017 - but that year inspectors foundmassive problems in decision-making - not least because of staff turnover. Pressure is mounting for Home Secretary Suella Braverman to respond to the crisis. Seven per cent were women aged over 18, and 12% were children under 18 (of whom three-quarters were male). A Home Office spokesperson said claims advice was deliberately ignored are baseless. "I want that reversed.

UK home secretary has written to Commons' home affairs select committee to apologise for her actions.

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