Britain's Home Secretary Suella Braverman quits, throwing the government of embattled Prime Minister Liz Truss into further turmoil.
Liz Truss’s ill-fated tenure as British Prime Minister was engulfed in yet more chaos on Wednesday when Suella Braverman, her Home Secretary, resigned seven weeks into her role over the use of a personal email address that breached ministerial rules. Braverman said she “sent an official document from my personal email to a trusted parliamentary colleague as party of policy engagement.
Braverman’s departure comes amid growing pressure on the beleaguered leader, whose time in Downing Street has been spectacularly derailed by a radical fiscal agenda which Truss has been forced to abandon and apologize for. It comes five days after Truss fired her Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, over the mini-budget, which sparked a collapse in the value of the pound and forced the Bank of England to intervene to calm markets.
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