Rishi Sunak has sacked Home Secretary Suella Braverman and replaced her with former Foreign Secretary James Cleverly.
The brutal move, set to infuriate the right of the Conservative Party, sparks a long-awaited Cabinet reshuffle and comes after days of speculation about Ms Braverman’s future, following an enormous row about whether a hardline op-ed in the Times had been cleared by No. 10.
A spokesman for the PM said: “Rishi Sunak has asked Suella Braverman to leave the Government and she has accepted”.
Ms Braverman had been causing numerous headaches for Rishi Sunak, including a policy of tearing down homeless people’s tents and describing the pro-Palestine protests as “hate marches”.
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