63 Facts About Suella Braverman

Sue-Ellen Cassiana Braverman is a British politician and barrister who became Home Secretary of the United Kingdom on 25 October 2022.

Suella Braverman had previously held the position from 6 September to 19 October 2022 under Prime Minister Liz Truss.

Suella Braverman became Member of Parliament for Fareham in 2015.

Suella Braverman was appointed attorney general for England and Wales and advocate general for Northern Ireland by Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the February 2020 cabinet reshuffle; she was appointed as Queen's Counsel automatically on her appointment.

Suella Braverman was born in Harrow, Greater London, and raised in Wembley.

Suella Braverman is the daughter of Uma and Christie Fernandes, both of Indian origin, who emigrated to Britain in the 1960s from Mauritius and Kenya respectively.

Suella Braverman is named after the character Sue Ellen Ewing from the American television soap opera Dallas which was popular at the time of her birth.

Suella Braverman's 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.

Suella Braverman is the niece of Mahen Kundasamy, a former Mauritian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.

Suella Braverman attended the Uxendon Manor Primary School in Brent and the fee-paying Heathfield School, Pinner, on a partial scholarship, after which she read law at Queens' College, Cambridge.

Suella Braverman lived in France for two years, as an Erasmus Programme student and then as an Entente Cordiale Scholar, where she studied a master's degree in European and French law at Pantheon-Sorbonne University.

Suella Braverman was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 2005.

Suella Braverman worked in litigation including the judicial review "basics" for a government practitioner of immigration and planning law.

Suella Braverman passed the New York, US bar examination in 2006, becoming licensed to practise law in the state until the licence was suspended in 2021 after she did not re-register as an attorney.

Suella Braverman founded the Africa Justice Foundation in 2010 alongside barristers Cherie Booth and Philip Riches.

Suella Braverman's name was already on the list of Conservative parliamentary candidates at the time of the 2003 Brent East by-election, and she had to be persuaded not to seek the nomination.

At the 2005 general election, Suella Braverman contested Leicester East, finishing in second place behind Labour's Keith Vaz, who won with a 15,876-vote majority.

Suella Braverman sought selection as the Conservative candidate in Bexhill and Battle, but was unsuccessful, and was eventually selected to be the Conservative candidate in Fareham.

Suella Braverman sought election to the London Assembly at the 2012 Assembly elections and was placed fourth on the Conservative London-wide list; only the first three Conservative candidates were elected.

Suella Braverman gave her maiden speech on 1 June 2015.

Suella Braverman has taken a particular interest in education, home affairs and justice and has written for The Daily Telegraph, Bright Blue, i News, HuffPost, Brexit Central and ConservativeHome.

From 2015 to 2017, Suella Braverman was a member of the Education Select Committee and the Education, Skills and the Economy Sub-Committee.

Suella Braverman chaired the all-party parliamentary group on Financial Education for Young People from September 2016 to May 2017.

Suella Braverman was a commissioner on the Social Market Foundation Commission on Inequality in Education, a cross-party initiative examining the causes and effects of inequality in education at primary and secondary levels in England and Wales.

Suella Braverman joined the Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme in 2016, graduating from the scheme in 2017.

Suella Braverman opened a Westminster Hall debate in the House of Commons on the failings of Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust and chaired meetings with the Trust's executives and with other MPs on the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Hampshire, in which instances of poor care quality and the deaths of patients were investigated.

Suella Braverman was a member of the panel of an inquiry, led by the think-tank British Future, to examine how the government could protect the rights of EU citizens in the UK.

Suella Braverman campaigned to leave the European Union in the 2016 EU membership referendum; a majority of votes in her constituency were for leaving.

Suella Braverman was chair of the European Research Group, a pro-Leave group of Conservative MPs, from May 2017 until her promotion to ministerial office; she was replaced by Jacob Rees-Mogg.

On 15 November 2018, Suella Braverman resigned on the same day that Davis' successor, Dominic Raab, resigned as Brexit secretary in protest at Theresa May and Olly Robbins's draft Brexit deal, which had been released the day before.

In March 2019, Suella Braverman stated in a speech for the Bruges Group that "[a]s Conservatives, we are engaged in a battle against Cultural Marxism".

Journalist Dawn Foster challenged Suella Braverman's use of the term "cultural Marxism", highlighting its anti-Semitic history and stating it was a theory in the manifesto of the mass murderer Anders Breivik.

Suella Braverman was made QC at the time of this appointment.

Suella Braverman was later criticised by members of the Bar Council for her poor choices in the role.

Suella Braverman was designated as a minister on leave while pregnant on 2 March 2021, shortly after the Ministerial and other Maternity Allowances Act 2021 was enacted to allow this arrangement.

Suella Braverman stood in the ensuing Conservative Party leadership election, but was eliminated from the race in the second round of ballots, winning 27 votes, a reduction on her vote in the first round and the lowest of the remaining candidates.

Suella Braverman said she would suspend the UK's target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

Suella Braverman was appointed Home Secretary in the new Truss ministry on 6 September 2022.

In October 2022, Suella Braverman said that she would love to see a front page of The Daily Telegraph sending asylum seekers to Rwanda, and described it as her "dream" and "obsession".

Suella Braverman left her cabinet position as Home Secretary on 19 October 2022.

Suella Braverman said that her departure was because she had made an "honest mistake" by sharing an official document from her personal email address with a colleague in Parliament, an action which breached the Ministerial Code.

Suella Braverman was highly critical of Truss's leadership in her resignation letter.

Suella Braverman's reappointment was challenged by Labour Party MPs, Liberal Democrats, Scottish National Party MPs and some Conservatives.

Sunak said Suella Braverman "made an error of judgment but she recognised that she raised the matter and she accepted her mistake".

On 5th April 2023, the re-selection vote was held and Suella Braverman won the vote by 77 votes to 54.

Suella Braverman stands on the right wing of the Conservative Party, was a supporter of Brexit, supports the withdrawal of the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights and supports sending cross-Channel migrants to Rwanda.

Suella Braverman has described herself as a "child of the British Empire".

Suella Braverman believes that on the whole, "the British Empire was a force for good", and described herself as being "proud of the British Empire".

Suella Braverman was the founding chair of governors at the Michaela Community School, and supports plans to create a free school in Fareham.

Suella Braverman sits on the advisory board of the New Schools Network, a charity which aims to support groups setting up free schools within the English state education sector.

Suella Braverman, who is of Indian heritage, said that she feared a trade deal with India would increase migration to the UK when Indians already represented the largest group of people who overstayed their visa.

In 2022, as Home Secretary, Suella Braverman referred to people reaching the UK by crossing the Channel in small boats as an 'invasion'.

Suella Braverman's comments attracted criticism from an 83-year-old Holocaust survivor who in January 2023 accused Suella Braverman of using language akin to Nazi rhetoric.

In May 2023, Suella Braverman spoke at the National Conservatism Conference in London.

Suella Braverman expressed opposition to what she referred to as "radical gender ideology".

In 2022, as Home Secretary, Suella Braverman referred to people reaching the UK by crossing the Channel in small boats as an 'invasion'.

Suella Braverman's comments attracted criticism from an 83-year-old Holocaust survivor who in January 2023 accused Suella Braverman of using language akin to Nazi rhetoric.

Suella Braverman's details on the No5 Chambers website said that she "is a contributor to Philip Kolvin QC's book Gambling for Local Authorities, Licensing, Planning and Regeneration".

In May 2023 it was reported that, following an incident where she was caught speeding by police when she was Attorney General, Suella Braverman asked whether civil servants could arrange for her an option to take a driving awareness course as a private one-to-one session rather than the standard group course with other motorists.

Suella Braverman then asked one of her political aides to assist her, who asked the course providers whether with online courses aliases could be used and whether cameras could be switched off.

Suella Braverman married Rael Braverman, a manager of the Mercedes-Benz Group who Braverman described as a "very proud member of the Jewish community", in February 2018 at the House of Commons.

Suella Braverman is a member of the Triratna Buddhist Community, formerly the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order.

Suella Braverman took her oath of allegiance as an MP on the Buddhist Dhammapada.