Will Suella Braverman leave the UK cabinet? A representative for Rishi Sunak states
Suella Braverman, one of the British prime minister's most senior ministers, wrote an incendiary piece criticizing the police's conduct of a planned pro-Palestinian march. As a result, pressure mounted on Sunak to fire Braverman.
As the home secretary in charge of national security and law enforcement, Braverman has a lengthy record of making divisive remarks that have turned off her more centrist colleagues.
Braverman accused the police of applying a "double standard" to rallies, particularly pro-Palestinian marches, in an opinion piece that was published in advance of a pro-Palestinian march on Saturday.
Potential leader of the ruling Conservative Party, Braverman has been critical of the tens of thousands of demonstrators who have congregated in London following the attack on Israel by Hamas last month.
Though there hasn't been any overt violence as a result of the rallies, the home secretary has referred to them as "mobs" and "hate marches".
After representatives from Sunak's office requested revisions to the article's text that did not materialize, Downing Street launched an inquiry into the manner in which it was published in The Times on Wednesday.
On Friday, a representative for Sunak said that the inquiry is ongoing but declined to comment on whether or not the prime minister and Braverman had talked recently. When asked whether Sunak was thinking about firing Braverman, she remained silent.
Ministers are required by the government's code of conduct to get Downing Street's consent before making any significant announcements, speeches, press releases, or new policy initiatives. Since the publication of the piece, Braverman has not issued an apology.
Politicians from the Conservative Party demanded that she be relocated or disassociated themselves from her remarks made on Friday.
The powerful Conservative 1922 Committee, which controls its backbench legislators, is led by Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, treasurer, who called Braverman's remarks "unwise" and "unprecedented" and that Sunak reassign her to a new position.
"We can't continue in this manner. "To continue as we are on these extremely delicate matters is totally unacceptable," he told the BBC.
The most unruly member of Sunak's cabinet, who may become a challenger and critic if fired, must be dismissed. Sunak's party is far behind the major opposition Labour Party in the public polls.
Ministers have demanded again and again that the protest be called off on Saturday, which is also Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of World War One. However, London police have said that there is not a sufficient risk of violence for them to utilize their legal authority to forbid it.
Sunak is too weak to dismiss Braverman, according to opposition leader Keir Starmer.
The highest ranking official in the administration to recant her remarks was Britain's Finance Minister, Jeremy Hunt.
He told reporters on Friday, The sentences that she used are not words that I myself would have used."
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