LONDON: Day after being sacked as the Home Secretary, Conservative Leader Suella Braverman lashed out at British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, accusing him of not fulfilling his assurances to her over the issues of illegal immigration and rising anti-semitism.
She said that Sunak’s plan is “not working” and the Conservative party is heading towards “record election defeat”.
On social media platform X, Braverman posted a message stating, “Thank you for your phone call yesterday morning in which you asked me to leave government. While disappointing, this is for the best”.
She claimed accepting the offer of serving as Home Secretary on “certain conditions” and “firm assurances”, despite Sunak being “rejected” by a majority of party members and having “no personal mandate” to be Prime Minister.
“As you know, I accepted your offer to serve as Home Secretary in October 2022 on certain conditions. Despite you having been rejected by a majority of Party members during the summer leadership contest and thus having no personal mandate to be Prime Minister, I agreed to support you because of the firm assurances you gave me on key policy priorities,” Braverman said.
The four assurances cited by Braverman in the letter were namely: reducing overall legal migration through, inter alia, international students routes and increasing salary thresholds; including specific ‘notwithstanding clauses’ into new legislation to stop the boats by excluding international laws objecting the move; delivering the Northern Ireland Protocol and Retained EU Law Bills in their then existing form and timetable; and issuing unequivocal statutory guidance to schools that protects biological sex, safeguards single-sex spaces, and empowers parents to know what is being taught to their children.
“I trusted you,” she said, adding “it is generally agreed that my support was a pivotal factor in winning the leadership contest and thus enabling you to become Prime Minister”. (IANS)
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