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After choosing to rehire Suella Braverman as interior minister despite her resignation due to a security violation, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak came under increasing pressure on Sunday.
Just days after leaving his predecessor Liz Truss’s ill-fated administration, Mr. Sunak replaced Ms. Braverman as Home Secretary when he became prime minister.
On Sunday, opposition Labour MP Yvette Cooper criticised Sunak for “irresponsibly” reappointing Braverman to the position in charge of domestic security matters. She also told Sky News that there were concerns about possibly additional security breaches by Braverman.
The fact that Rishi Sunak appointed the same person six days after breaking the ministerial code due to security flaws, Ms. Cooper said, “truly illustrates the massive error of judgement that she made.”
For this level of confusion, instability, and seriously careless decision-making, national security is too vital.
After Keir Starmer, the head of the Labour Party, suggested that Mr. Sunak fire Suella Braverman on Friday, Ms. Cooper spoke, calling it “the strong thing to do.”
Those Tory MPs who lean the most to the right are represented by Ms. Braverman. She has fervently backed a proposal to deport migrants who enter the UK illegally to Rwanda.
She allegedly quarrelled with Ms. Truss over immigration policy but left because of a security lapse: emailing a private email account with a confidential document and then forwarding it.
Ms. Braverman was required to own up to her error and accept responsibility, according to Mr. Sunak.
A supporter of Mr. Sunak, Michael Gove, praised Ms. Braverman on Sunday as a “first-rate front-rank politician.” Mr. Gove has since taken over as minister for “levelling up,” the position he held under Boris Johnson as premier.
The BBC said that it had been shown an email from Ms. Braverman requesting the recipient to “cancel the message and ignore,” and Mr. Gove stated that it was his “understanding” that she reported the issue promptly and appropriately.
Mr. Gove stated that sending such a warning would be “normal practise”.
The crisis started when the Mail on Sunday reported an unverified claim that Truss’s personal phone had been hacked by alleged Kremlin agents while she was the foreign minister.
Although Mr. Gove emphasised that “We take security matters tremendously seriously,” he did not know if the report was accurate.
