By Ben Kerrigan-
Suella Braverman has returned to the role of home secretary only six days after she dramatically resigned.
Ms Braverman stepped down from Liz Truss’ premiership, plunging Ms Truss’s already battered premiership into more chaos. She admitted breaches of data, admitting to have emailed cabinet papers from a private account, but also attacked Ms Truss’s approach to immigration.
Sunak’s reshuffle now include the roles of Chancellor, home secretary and foreign secretary are now held by the same people they were seven days ago. Ms Braverman had been at odds with Ms Truss over plans to relax immigration rules in a bid to boost economic growth.
Jeremy Hunt was appointed Chancellor two weeks ago by Ms Truss and reversed much of her tax-cutting mini-budget. James Cleverly, made foreign secretary by Ms Truss, will also remain in post.
Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper accused Mr Sunak of “putting party before country” in appointing Ms Braverman.
Ms Braverman threw her support behind Mr Sunak in the contest to replace Ms Truss, in what was widely seen as a significant endorsement by an MP on the right-wing of the Tory party.
“He said he wants his government to have ‘integrity, professionalism and accountability at every level’,” Ms Cooper said.
“Yet he has just appointed Suella Braverman to be home secretary again a week after she resigned for breaches of the Ministerial Code, security lapses, sending sensitive government information through unauthorised personal channels, and following weeks of non-stop public disagreements with other cabinet ministers.
“Our national security and public safety are too important for this kind of chaos.”
Ms Braverman had been appointed as Attorney General by Boris Johnson in 2020, before becoming Ms Truss’s first home secretary.
In her resignation letter last week, Ms Braverman said she had made a “technical infringement” of the rules by sending an official document from a personal email and was now taking responsibility.
“I have made a mistake; I accept responsibility; I resign,” she told the PM in her letter, in a thinly veiled dig at Ms Truss.
However, she also said she had “serious concerns about this government’s commitment to honouring manifesto commitments, such as reducing overall migration numbers and stopping illegal migration, particularly the dangerous small boats crossings.”