Indian-origin Suella Braverman is UK's new Home Secretary: All you need to know
Indian-origin barrister Suella Braverman, 42, has been appointed UK's new Home Secretary.
By ET Spotlight Special |
Reuters
Indian-origin barrister Suella Braverman, 42, has been appointed UK's new Home Secretary, replacing Priti Patel who is also of Indian descent.
- Suella is the daughter of Hindu Tamil mother Uma and Goan-origin father Christie Fernandes. Her mother migrated to the UK from Mauritius while her father migrated from Kenya in the 1960s.
- She was born Sue-Ellen Cassiana Fernandes on 3 April 1980, in Harrow, London.
- She read law at Queens' College, Cambridge. She lived in France for two years, completing a master's degree in European and French law at Panthéon-Sorbonne
- Suella was elected Conservative Party member of Parliament for Fareham in south-east England in May 2015.
- She was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for exiting the European Union from January to November 2018.
- Suella Braverman was Attorney General between 2020-2022 in the Boris Johnson-led government.
- When Johnson faced exit due to a string to scandals, she was among the first contenders to throw her hat in the ring to replace him as Tory leader and Prime Minister.
- She was knocked out in the second round of the initial ballot of Tory MPs and threw her support behind Liz Truss.
- After Liz Truss was elected new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, she appointed Suella Braverman as her Home Secretary, one of the highest offices in the UK government.
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- Braverman is a prominent member of the pro-Brexit wing of the Conservatives who wants a clear break from Europe, including taking the UK out of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
- As Home Secretary, Braverman will be tasked with projects such as the government's plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda, which has faced legal challenges.
- Suella Braverman is a Buddhist who attends the London Buddhist Centre regularly and took her oath of office in Parliament on the ‘Dhammapada' scripture of Lord Buddha's sayings.
- Suella Braverman is the mother of two. She married Rael Braverman in February 2018 at the House of Commons. Their first child was born in 2019 and their second in 2021.
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