Suella Braverman is a British politician and Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom. Braverman was born in Harrow, Greater London, and raised in Wembley. She is the daughter of Uma (née Mootien-Pillay) and Christie Fernandes, both of Indian origin, who immigrated to Britain in the 1960s from Mauritius and Kenya respectively.
She is named after the character Sue Ellen Ewing from the American television soap opera Dallas, which her mother was a fan of. Her mother, of Hindu Tamil Mauritian descent, was a nurse and a councillor in Brent, and the Conservative candidate for Tottenham in the 2001 general election and the 2003 Brent East by-election. Her father, of Goan Christian ancestry (who formerly was an Indian in Kenya), worked for a housing association.
Suella is married to Rael Braverman, a Finance Manager of the Mercedes-Benz Group, whom Braverman described as a “very proud member of the Jewish community”, in February 2018 at the House of Commons.
As of 2021, they have two children: a son (George) born in 2019 and a daughter (Gabriella) born in 2021. She lives in Locks Heath, Hampshire.
Braverman is a member of the Triratna Buddhist Community, formerly the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order, but is not a member of the Triratna Buddhist Order. She took her oath of allegiance as an MP on the Buddhist Dhammapada.
She is the niece of Mahen Kundasamy, a former Mauritian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.
Honours
- She was sworn in as a member of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council on 19 February 2020 at Buckingham Palace, entitling her to the honorific prefix “The Right Honourable”.
- She was appointed as Queen’s Counsel (QC) on 24 February 2020.
Key details about Suella Braverman:
- Early Life and Education: Suella Braverman was born on 3rd March 1980, in Harrow, London, United Kingdom. She attended Cambridge University, where she studied Law, and later attended the University of Oxford, where she studied European and French Law.
- Legal Career: Before entering politics, Braverman worked as a barrister specializing in public law and judicial review.
- Political Career: Suella Braverman is a member of the Conservative Party. She was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Fareham in Hampshire during the 2015 general election. As an MP, she represented her constituency in the House of Commons.
- Government Positions: She held various government positions during her political career. For example, she was appointed as the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Department for Exiting the European Union in 2019 during the Brexit negotiations. Her role involved working on legal aspects related to the UK’s exit from the European Union.
- Resignation: In February 2020, Suella Braverman resigned from her position as a government minister in protest against Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to allow the Chinese technology company Huawei to be involved in the development of the UK’s 5G network.
- Return to Government: After her resignation, Suella Braverman returned to government as the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport in a cabinet reshuffle in September 2021.
- Secretary of State for the Home Department: She was appointed on 25 October 2022. She previously held the same role between 6 September 2022 and 19 October 2022.
Secretary of State for the Home Department
The Rt Hon Suella Braverman KC MP
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Biography
Suella Braverman was appointed Secretary of State for the Home Department on 25 October 2022. She previously held the same role between 6 September 2022 and 19 October 2022.
She was Attorney General between 13 February 2020 and 6 September 2022.
She also served as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union from January to November 2018.
Suella was elected as the Conservative MP for Fareham in May 2015.
Education
Suella was educated at Heathfield School in London and went on to study Law at Queens’ College, Cambridge. She gained a Masters in Law from the University of Paris 1, Pantheon-Sorbonne and qualified as a New York Attorney.
Career
Called to the Bar in 2005, Suella specialised in public law and judicial review. From 2010-2015 she was on the Attorney General’s Panel of Treasury Counsel. She has defended the Home Office in immigration cases, the Parole Board in challenges by prisoners and the Ministry of Defence in matters relating to injuries sustained in battle.
Secretary of State for the Home Department
The Secretary of State has overall responsibility for all Home Office business, including:
- overarching responsibility for the departmental portfolio and oversight of the ministerial team
- Cabinet
- National Security Council (NSC)
- public appointments
- oversight of the Security Service
- overall responsibility for the Home Office response to COVID-19 including health measures at the border and police powers to enforce lockdown
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Previous roles in government
- Secretary of State for the Home Department 2022 to 2022
- Attorney General 2021 to 2022
- Minister on Leave (Attorney General) 2021 to 2021
- Attorney General 2020 to 2021
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State 2018 to 2018
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Suella Braverman has launched an outspoken broadside against pampered, out-of-touch celebrities who criticize her immigration policy.
Sunday interview, the Home Secretary fired back at the likes of Sir Elton John and Gary Lineker, branding them members of a ‘virtue-signalling elite’ who lecture the British people ‘from their villas and private jets’.
Last week, Sir Elton – who owns a £15 million property on the French Riviera – said that Ms Braverman risked ‘legitimizing hate and violence’ with her comments about migrants ‘gaming’ the system to secure refugee status. And BBC presenter Lineker tweeted: ‘She can’t possibly know that they [the migrants] are lying.’
Now the Home Secretary has hit back in uncompromising terms.
‘What we are seeing here is out-of-touch pampered elites, lecturing us on how we should think about very, very serious issues affecting the majority of British people, such as illegal migration.
‘These people don’t have to wait in a queue to see a GP, they can just go private. They don’t have to worry about trying to afford a car or buy a house. The vast majority of British people are directly affected by the unprecedented scale of illegal migration. My job is to think of them first ahead of a virtue-signalling, elitist view from Hollywood Central.’
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Ms Braverman, one of the frontrunners to succeed Rishi Sunak as Tory leader, said she didn’t ‘have a problem with anyone flying in private jets or having villas around the world’ but suggested they do not speak for the majority.
‘What I have a problem with is these privileged people telling the British people how they should think. I find that rank hypocrisy and condescending, lecturing tone incredibly inappropriate. These pampered elites are trying to look compassionate and sound virtuous.’
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Sir Elton, who is worth £450 million, spent some of the summers on his yacht in St Tropez, while Lineker triggered a storm earlier this year when he accused Ms Braverman of mimicking the messaging used by Nazis in the 1930s.
However, some Tory MPs were also angered by Ms Braverman’s comments in the US last week.
The row comes as delegates gather in Manchester for the Conservative Party’s annual conference, with potential leadership candidates vying for prominence. Under an operation codenamed Swooping Eagle, the party is sending ‘spies’ to follow ambitious targets including Ms Braverman and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch.
Last night, Ms Badenoch made a bid to seize the initiative from Ms. Braverman by raising the prospect of Britain leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) if the courts continued to use it to block Government plans to deport migrants to Rwanda – just days after the Home Secretary argued the same point.
‘It is definitely something which needs to be on the table,’ Ms Badenoch said.
As Mr Sunak faces a critical week at the conference:
- Tory MPs, in a mounting revolt, signed a pledge not to vote for any increase in tax as the Prime Minister’s predecessor Liz Truss planned to tell a Great British Growth Rally that the Tories must become ‘the party of business once again’;
- Right-wing members of the New Conservatives will unveil demands for manifesto policies, including withdrawing from the ECHR, making major cuts to migration and banning gender ideology in schools;
- Labour insiders claimed that after receiving ‘intelligence’ they were preparing for a May General Election;
- Sir Keir Starmer’s strategists said that Thursday’s Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election, a seat held by the SNP, was the most important for the party for ‘decades’, as Labour needs to take such seats if it is to win the Election;
- Mr Sunak tried to win the motorist vote by introducing a single app to pay for parking anywhere in the country;
- The Prime Minister unveiled a £1.1 billion plan for long-term help for 55 ‘left-behind’ towns across the UK.
In her remarks made during a speech in Washington last week, Ms Braverman said the ‘misguided dogma of multiculturalism’ was posing an ‘existential threat’ to the West – prompting Mr Sunak to respond by praising the UK’s ‘fantastic multicultural democracy’. Speaking to the MoS, Ms Braverman defended her remarks by saying: ‘There are many areas around the country where integration hasn’t worked. I think I’m illustrating and voicing a concern shared by the British people.’
In Operation Swooping Eagle – a tacit acknowledgement that the conference will mark the unofficial launch of the next Tory leadership race – Ministers will be watched at every event and fringe meeting, according to one senior staffer, who added: ‘We’re not going to be blindsided as we have been at previous conferences.’
Miriam Cates, another Tory leadership hopeful, will join colleagues from the New Conservatives at a rally to push for ‘five alternative pledges’ they want in the manifesto, as she warned that Western society is threatened by ‘cultural Marxism’ and falling birth rates.
Ms Badenoch is the most popular Cabinet member, according to the influential Conservative Home survey of Tory supporters.
Second is Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, another potential candidate, followed by Leader of the House Penny Mordaunt. Security Minister Tom Tugendhat, who may also be a contender, is tenth.
In her interview, Ms Braverman said that she had ‘grounds for optimism’ that the Supreme Court, which will start a three-day hearing on the Rwanda policy on October 9, would find the Government was acting lawfully.
She said: ‘Obviously we did lose at the Court of Appeal but I very much hope the [Supreme] Court will agree with the Government and find that it’s lawful so that we can operationalise it and get flights off to Rwanda as quickly as possible.’
Failing that, she said, her views on leaving the ECHR were ‘well known’.
But she denied having leadership ambitions, saying: ‘There’s no vacancy. I’m working hand-in-hand with the Prime Minister to stop the boats and win the next General Election.
‘I applaud the Prime Minister for his very courageous stance on some of these tough decisions in the long-term interest of the country. He’s working flat out with me on our plan, and we’re making progress.’
Sir Elton John and Gary Lineker were both approached for comment about the Home Secretary’s remarks.
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Patrick Bet-David (PBD) and the Home Team discuss how New York Governor Kathy Hochul changed her position on immigration because the city is being overwhelmed by immigrants.
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“We got something in this country you’ve heard of it’s called nimby, not in my backyard.” ~George Carlin
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