Indian-born Suella Braverman Appointed Home Secretary in New Cabinet of Liz Truss Government in United Kingdom

Suella Braverman was appointed Home Secretary by newly appointed Prime Minister Liz Truss.

London:

Suella Braverman, an Indian-born lawyer, was appointed the UK’s new Home Secretary on Tuesday, succeeding her Indian-born colleague Priti Patel.

The 42-year-old Conservative member of Parliament for Fareham in southeastern England, who has so far served as Justice Secretary in the government led by Boris Johnson, was one of the first candidates to throw his hat in. so Johnson. as the leader and Prime Minister of the Tory.

Braverman was appointed Home Secretary by newly appointed Prime Minister Liz Truss.

The mother of two children is the daughter of Tamil Hindu mother Uma and Goan father Christie Fernandes. Her mother immigrated to the UK from Mauritius while her father emigrated from Kenya in the 1960s.

Braverman will be tasked with implementing projects such as the government’s plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda, which has faced legal challenges, the BBC reported.

“I want to dip the chances of Brexit and solve the lingering problems … and cut taxes,” said Braverman, a prominent member of the Conservative Party’s pro-Brexit faction who wants to break away from Europe. including removing the UK from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).

Braverman said of his parents in his July campaign kick-off video: “They love England.

However, she was eliminated in the second round of the initial vote of Tory MPs and threw her support behind Truss, who as Prime Minister rewarded her with one of the posts highest level in the UK government.

“Now Liz is ready to be Prime Minister. She won’t need to learn about the job. And the job is difficult and needs to be done properly. The party has had six difficult years and stability. determined urgently and quickly,” Braverman said of her future boss at Downing Street.

The Cambridge University law graduate married Rael Braverman in 2018 and her maternity leave famously led to an overdue legal change last year to allow her to continue to hold the ministry. Chief Cabinet in the distant time to give birth to their second child.

Braverman is a regular Buddhist at the London Buddhist Center and is sworn in in Parliament on the ‘Dhammapada’ sutra about the Buddha’s sayings.

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