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Suella Braverman
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Official portrait, 2022
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| Home Secretary | |
| In office 25 October 2022 – 13 November 2023 |
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| Prime Minister | Rishi Sunak |
| Preceded by | Grant Shapps |
| Succeeded by | James Cleverly |
| In office 6 September 2022 – 19 October 2022 |
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| Prime Minister | Liz Truss |
| Preceded by | Priti Patel |
| Succeeded by | Grant Shapps |
| Attorney General for England and Wales Advocate General for Northern Ireland |
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| In office 10 September 2021 – 6 September 2022 |
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| Prime Minister | Boris Johnson |
| Preceded by | Michael Ellis |
| Succeeded by | Michael Ellis |
| In office 13 February 2020 – 2 March 2021 |
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| Prime Minister | Boris Johnson |
| Preceded by | Geoffrey Cox |
| Succeeded by | Michael Ellis |
| Minister on Leave | |
| In office 2 March 2021 – 10 September 2021 |
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| Prime Minister | Boris Johnson |
| Maternity Cover | Michael Ellis |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union | |
| In office 9 January 2018 – 15 November 2018 |
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| Prime Minister | Theresa May |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Kwasi Kwarteng |
| Chair of the European Research Group | |
| In office 19 June 2017 – 9 January 2018 |
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| Deputy | Michael Tomlinson |
| Party Leader | Theresa May |
| Preceded by | Steve Baker |
| Succeeded by | Jacob Rees-Mogg |
| Deputy Chair of the European Research Group | |
| In office 20 November 2016 – 19 June 2017 Serving with Michael Tomlinson
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| Chair | Steve Baker |
| Party Leader | Theresa May |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Michael Tomlinson |
| Member of Parliament for Fareham |
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| Assumed office 7 May 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Mark Hoban |
| Majority | 26,086 (45.6%) |
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Sue-Ellen Cassiana Fernandes
3 April 1980 Harrow, London, England |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse |
Rael Braverman
(m. 2018) |
| Children | 2 |
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Sue-Ellen Cassiana Braverman KC ( soo-EL-ə-_-bruh-VƏR-mən; née Fernandes, born 3 April 1980) is a British politician and barrister, who served twice as Home Secretary from 6 September 2022 to 19 October 2022, and then 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 September 2021 to 2022. She became Member of Parliament (MP) for Fareham in Hampshire in 2015.
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.
Following Johnson's announcing his resignation in July 2022, Braverman stood as a candidate to succeed him in the July–September Conservative Party leadership election; she was eliminated from the ballot after the second round of voting. She subsequently supported 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 criticism for breaching the Ministerial Code by sending a sensitive official document to a political ally 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 on 13 November 2023.
Early life and education
Braverman was born in Harrow, Greater London, and raised in Wembley. She is the daughter of Uma (née Mootien-Pillay) and Christie Fernandes, both of Indian origin, who immigrated to Britain in the 1960s from Mauritius and Kenya respectively. She is named after the character Sue Ellen Ewing from the American television soap opera Dallas, which her mother was a fan of, but Sue-Ellen was abbreviated to Suella by her primary school teachers. Her mother, of Hindu Tamil Mauritian descent, was a nurse and a councillor in Brent, and the Conservative candidate for Tottenham in the 2001 general election and the 2003 Brent East by-election. Her father, of Goan Christian ancestry (who formerly was an Indian in Kenya), worked for a housing association. She is the niece of Mahen Kundasamy, a former Mauritian High commissioner to the United Kingdom.
She attended the Uxendon Manor Primary School in Brent and the fee-paying Heathfield School, Pinner, on a partial scholarship, after which she read law at Queens' College, Cambridge. During her undergraduate studies, she was chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association.
Braverman lived in France for two years, as an Erasmus Programme student and then as an Entente Cordiale Scholar, where she studied for a master's degree in European and French law at Panthéon-Sorbonne University.
Career
Braverman was called to the bar (becoming a barrister) at Middle Temple in 2005. She completed pupillage at 2–3 Gray's Inn Square (now Cornerstone Barristers) but did not start tenancy there, beginning practice at the London branch of a large Birmingham set, No5 Chambers. She worked in litigation including the judicial review "basics" for a government practitioner of immigration and planning law. She passed the New York bar examination in 2006, becoming licensed to practise law in the state until the licence was suspended in 2021 after she did not re-register as an attorney. She was appointed to the Attorney General's C panel of counsel, the entry level, undertaking basic government cases, in 2010.
Braverman founded the Africa Justice Foundation in 2010 alongside barristers Cherie Booth and Philip Riches.
Personal life
In 2018, she married Rael Braverman, a manager of the Mercedes-Benz Group, whom she described as a "very proud member of the Jewish community",. The wedding was celebrated at the House of Commons in February 2018. Rael Braverman, who moved to the U.K. as a teenager from South Africa, formerly lived in Israel. Suella Braverman told The Jewish Chronicle that she has "close family members who serve in the IDF". As of 2021[update], they have two children: a son, George, born in 2019 and a daughter, Gabriella, born in 2021. She lives in Locks Heath, Hampshire.
Braverman is a member of the Triratna Buddhist Community, formerly the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order, but is not a member of the Triratna Buddhist Order. She took her oath of allegiance as an MP on the Buddhist Dhammapada.
Honours
- She was sworn in as a member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council on 19 February 2020 at Buckingham Palace, entitling her to the honorific prefix "The Right Honourable".
- She was appointed as Queen's Counsel (QC) on 24 February 2020.
See also
In Spanish: Suella Braverman para niños
