Suella Braverman tipped as next home secretary

Suella Braverman

Ms Braverman was the first person to publicly put herself forward to succeed Boris Johnson as leader of the Conservative Party, but failed to make it past the second ballot of Tory MPs.

During her short-lived campaign, she pledged to take the UK out of the European Convention on Human Rights after the first flight removing asylum seekers to Rwanda was halted on human rights grounds.

Ms Braverman studied law at Cambridge University and was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 2005, where she specialised in planning, judicial review and immigration cases.

A Brexiteer, she spent two years in France as an Erasmus Programme student and thereafter as an Entente Cordiale Scholar, completing her master’s degree in European and French law at Pantheon-Sorbonne University.

According to Westminster sources, new prime minister Liz Truss will name Ms Braverman as her home secretary when she unveils her cabinet this evening.

Priti Patel, who has served in the role since 2019, formally resigned in a two-page letter to Boris Johnson yesterday, in which she said it was “vital” that her successor continued her policies, including on the removal of asylum seekers to Rwanda.

She added: “From the backbenches, I will champion many of the policies and causes I have stood up for both inside and outside of government.”