SUELLA Braverman was SACKED as Home Secretary today after being accused of fuelling Armistice Day tensions by slamming Met Police chiefs.
In a short statement the ex-cabinet minister said: “It has been the greatest privilege of my life to serve as Home Secretary.
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“I will have more to say in due course.”
Embattled Rishi Sunak will conduct a major reshuffle TODAY as Tory MPs descended into civil war.
Foreign Secretary James Cleverly is expected to replace Ms Braverman.
And in a dramatic twist ex-PM David Cameron is understood to be making a shock political comeback as Foreign Secretary.
Critics of Ms Braverman had blamed violent clashes on Saturday between pro-Palestinian protestors and far right thugs on her divisive comments about cops.
Ms Braverman sparked outrage late last week after taking to the Times to accuse the police of favouring left wing pro-Palestine and BLM protestors over right wing marches.
Over the weekend Ms Braverman came out swinging after growing calls for her to quit.
The Labour Mayor of London, Scottish First Minister and a string of Labour MPs had called for the ex-Home Secretary to go after EDL thugs battered cops on Saturday.
Labour’s shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said Mrs Braverman cannot stay in her job.
She blamed the tensions in London on the firebrand MP’s “appalling and unprecedented attack” on the Metropolitan Police’s operational independence and impartiality.
But supporters of the ex-Home Secretary said she had been vindicated in warning against two-tier policing at the weekend and was proven right that clashes were coming.
Ms Braverman had said: “Unfortunately, there is a perception that senior police officers play favourites when it comes to protesters. During Covid, why was it that lockdown objectors were given no quarter by public order police yet Black Lives Matters demonstrators were enabled, allowed to break rules and even greeted with officers taking the knee?
“Right-wing and nationalist protesters who engage in aggression are rightly met with a stern response yet pro-Palestinian mobs displaying almost identical behaviour are largely ignored, even when clearly breaking the law.”
Ahead of the PM’s major reshuffle allies of the ousted Home Secretary fumed.
Many viewed her as their ideological representative on the cabinet table and a force to counter balance more moderate Tory MPs.
The reshuffle comes just three days before the Supreme Court will make a final ruling on whether the Rwanda deportation scheme is legal.
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