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The Right Honourable Suella Braverman KC MP
Official portrait, 2024

Home Secretary
In office 25 October 2022 \u2013 13 November 2023
Prime Minister	Rishi Sunak
Preceded by	Grant Shapps
Succeeded by	James Cleverly
In office 6 September 2022 \u2013 19 October 2022
Prime Minister	Liz Truss
Preceded by	Priti Patel
Succeeded by	Grant Shapps
Attorney General for England and Wales Advocate General for Northern Ireland
In office 10 September 2021 \u2013 6 September 2022
Prime Minister	Boris Johnson
Preceded by	Michael Ellis
Succeeded by	Michael Ellis
In office 13 February 2020 \u2013 2 March 2021
Prime Minister	Boris Johnson
Preceded by	Geoffrey Cox
Succeeded by	Michael Ellis
Minister on Leave
In office 2 March 2021 \u2013 10 September 2021
Prime Minister	Boris Johnson
Interim	Michael Ellis^[a]
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union
In office 9 January 2018 \u2013 15 November 2018
Prime Minister	Theresa May
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Kwasi Kwarteng
Chair of the European Research Group
In office 19 June 2017 \u2013 9 January 2018
Deputy	Michael Tomlinson
Preceded by	Steve Baker
Succeeded by	Jacob Rees-Mogg
Deputy Chair of the European Research Group
In office 20 November 2016 \u2013 19 June 2017 Serving with Michael Tomlinson
Chair	Steve Baker
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Michael Tomlinson
Member of Parliament for Fareham and Waterlooville Fareham (2015\u20132024)
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 May 2015
Preceded by	Mark Hoban
Majority	6,079 (12.1%)
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Personal details
Born	Sue-Ellen Cassiana Fernandes (1980-04-03) 3 April 1980 (age 44) Harrow, London, England
Political party	Conservative (2002\u2013present)
Spouse	\n Rael Braverman (m. 2018)
Children	2
Alma mater	Queens' College, Cambridge Panth\u00e9on-Sorbonne University
Signature	$\"\"$
Website	suellabraverman.co.uk

Sue-Ellen Cassiana \"Suella\" Braverman KC (/su\u02c8\u025bl\u0259 \u02c8br\u00e6v\u0259rm\u0259n/;^[1] n\u00e9e Fernandes; born 3 April 1980) is a British politician and barrister who served as Home Secretary from 6 September 2022 to 19 October 2022, and again from 25 October 2022 to 13 November 2023. A member of the Conservative Party, she was chair of the European Research Group from 2017 to 2018 and Attorney General for England and Wales from 2020 to March 2021, and again from September 2021 to 2022. She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Fareham and Waterlooville, previously Fareham, since 2015.\n

In the January 2018 cabinet reshuffle, Braverman was appointed parliamentary under-secretary of state for exiting the European Union by Prime Minister Theresa May. In November 2018, she resigned in protest against May's draft Brexit withdrawal agreement. 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.\n

Following Johnson announcing his resignation in July 2022, Braverman stood as a candidate to succeed him in the July\u2013September Conservative Party leadership election; she was eliminated from the ballot after the second round of voting. She subsequently supported Liz Truss's bid to become Conservative leader, and was appointed home secretary on 6 September 2022 when Truss became prime minister. Braverman resigned as home secretary on 19 October 2022 following public claims that she had broken the Ministerial Code after having sent a Cabinet document using her personal email address. Six days later, she was reinstated as home secretary by Truss's successor Rishi Sunak. She was dismissed from her post by Sunak in the November 2023 British cabinet reshuffle.\n

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Parliament of the United Kingdom\n
Preceded by Mark Hoban \n	Member of parliament for Fareham 2015\u2013present\n	Incumbent\n
Party political offices\n
New office\n	Deputy Chair of the European Research Group 2016\u20132017 Served alongside: Michael Tomlinson\n	Succeeded by Michael Tomlinson \n
Preceded by Steve Baker \n	Chair of the European Research Group 2017\u20132018\n	Succeeded by Jacob Rees-Mogg \n
Political offices\n
New office\n	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union 2018\n	Succeeded by Kwasi Kwarteng \n
Preceded by Geoffrey Cox \n	Attorney General for England and Wales 2020\u20132021\n	Succeeded by Michael Ellis \n
Advocate General for Northern Ireland 2020\u20132021\n
Preceded by Michael Ellis \n	Attorney General for England and Wales 2021\u20132022\n	Succeeded by Michael Ellis \n
Advocate General for Northern Ireland 2021\u20132022\n
Preceded by Priti Patel \n	Home Secretary 2022\n	Succeeded by Grant Shapps \n
Preceded by Grant Shapps \n	Home Secretary 2022\u20132023\n	Succeeded by James Cleverly \n

v t e Truss Cabinet
Cabinet members	Liz Truss\n Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Coffey \n Jeremy Hunt \n James Cleverly \n Grant Shapps \n Brandon Lewis \n Nadhim Zahawi \n Ben Wallace \n Simon Clarke \n Jacob Rees-Mogg \n Kemi Badenoch \n Chloe Smith \n Kit Malthouse \n Ranil Jayawardena \n Anne-Marie Trevelyan \n Chris Heaton-Harris \n Alister Jack \n Sir Robert Buckland \n The Lord True \n Michelle Donelan \n Penny Mordaunt \n Sir Jake Berry	$\"Government$
Also attended meetings	\n Edward Argar \n Wendy Morton \n Chris Philp \n Michael Ellis \n Vicky Ford \n Tom Tugendhat \n James Heappey \n Graham Stuart \n
Departures	\n Kwasi Kwarteng \n Suella Braverman \n

v t e Sunak Cabinet
Cabinet members	Rishi Sunak\n Oliver Dowden \n Jeremy Hunt \n David Cameron \n James Cleverly \n Grant Shapps \n Alex Chalk \n Claire Coutinho \n Michelle Donelan \n Michael Gove \n Victoria Atkins \n Penny Mordaunt \n The Lord True \n Kemi Badenoch \n Steve Barclay \n Mel Stride \n Gillian Keegan \n Mark Harper \n Lucy Frazer \n Richard Holden \n Chris Heaton-Harris \n Alister Jack \n David T. C. Davies	$\"Government$
Also attended meetings	\n Simon Hart \n Laura Trott \n Victoria Prentis \n John Glen \n Esther McVey \n Tom Tugendhat \n Andrew Mitchell \n Johnny Mercer \n
Departures	\n Gavin Williamson \n Nadhim Zahawi \n Dominic Raab \n Ben Wallace \n Suella Braverman \n Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Coffey \n Jeremy Quin \n Robert Jenrick \n

v t e Current UK Conservative MPs
\n Opposition Frontbench \n 1922 Committee \n
North East England	\n Matt Vickers \n
North West England	\n Aphra Brandreth \n Esther McVey \n Andrew Snowden \n
Yorkshire and the Humber	\n David Davis \n Charlie Dewhirst \n Kevin Hollinrake \n Robbie Moore \n Alec Shelbrooke \n Julian Smith \n Graham Stuart \n Rishi Sunak \n Martin Vickers \n
East Midlands	\n Stuart Andrew \n Edward Argar \n Victoria Atkins \n Peter Bedford \n Sarah Bool \n Alberto Costa \n Gareth Davies \n Luke Evans \n John Hayes \n Robert Jenrick \n Caroline Johnson \n Alicia Kearns \n Edward Leigh \n Neil O'Brien \n Shivani Raja \n
West Midlands	\n Stuart Anderson \n Harriett Baldwin \n Saqib Bhatti \n Karen Bradley \n Mark Garnier \n Nigel Huddleston \n Andrew Mitchell \n Wendy Morton \n Jesse Norman \n Mark Pritchard \n Neil Shastri-Hurst \n Bradley Thomas \n Gavin Williamson \n Mike Wood \n Jeremy Wright \n
East of England	\n Kemi Badenoch \n Steve Barclay \n Alex Burghart \n James Cartlidge \n James Cleverly \n Lewis Cocking \n Oliver Dowden \n Mark Francois \n George Freeman \n Richard Fuller \n Rebecca Harris \n Richard Holden \n Neil Hudson \n Bernard Jenkin \n Jerome Mayhew \n Gagan Mohindra \n Ben Obese-Jecty \n Priti Patel \n Patrick Spencer \n Blake Stephenson \n Nick Timothy \n John Whittingdale \n James Wild \n
London	\n Gareth Bacon \n Bob Blackman \n Iain Duncan Smith \n Peter Fortune \n Louie French \n Julia Lopez \n Chris Philp \n Andrew Rosindell \n David Simmonds \n
South East England	\n Suella Braverman \n Claire Coutinho \n Mims Davies \n Caroline Dinenage \n Roger Gale \n Nus Ghani \n Helen Grant \n Andrew Griffith \n Alison Griffiths \n Damian Hinds \n Paul Holmes \n Jeremy Hunt \n Lincoln Jopp \n Katie Lam \n Julian Lewis \n Alan Mak \n Kit Malthouse \n Joy Morrissey \n Kieran Mullan \n Caroline Nokes \n Rebecca Paul \n Jack Rankin \n Joe Robertson \n Greg Smith \n Ben Spencer \n Greg Stafford \n Desmond Swayne \n Laura Trott \n Tom Tugendhat \n Helen Whately \n
South West England	\n Christopher Chope \n Geoffrey Clifton-Brown \n Geoffrey Cox \n Ashley Fox \n John Glen \n Simon Hoare \n Danny Kruger \n Andrew Murrison \n David Reed \n Rebecca Smith \n Mel Stride \n
Scotland	\n Andrew Bowie \n John Cooper \n Harriet Cross \n John Lamont \n David Mundell \n
\n List of Conservative Party MPs\n 2024\u2013present \n

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Israeli\u2013Palestinian conflict

India trade deal

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