The motivations for her approach, Suella Braverman explained them to the whole world through a letter sent to her Prime Minister and immediately published on her Twitter account. The BBC relays the most salient extracts:
“Earlier, today [mercredi 18 octobre], I sent an official document from my personal email to a parliamentary colleague, with the aim of obtaining support for the government’s policy on migration. This constitutes a technical violation of the rules… It is normal for me to leave. I made a mistake, I accept responsibility for it, and I resign.”
Thus, Braverman would have left his post for a simple “technical” error, one can understand from his letter. But the rest of this missive leaves some doubts as to the real motivations of the Minister of the Interior.
“It is obvious to everyone that we are going through tumultuous times, and I have concerns about the direction of this government,” writes Braverman, who then hastens to launch a frontal attack on the executive, reports the British media:
“Not only have we broken key promises that were made to our constituents, but I have serious concerns that this government is honoring commitments such as reducing the overall number of migrants and stopping immigration. illegal.”
“A pretext to force her to leave”
“The British, continues the curator, deserve law enforcement they can respect, and the immigration policy they voted for in such numbers.”
This is not strictly speaking a conciliatory way of divorcing his government, believes The Times, who talks about a “letter full of anger”, where Braverman accuses between the lines “the Prime Minister for having found a pretext [avec l’affaire du mail] to force her to leave”.
An “extraordinary achievement” by Liz Truss
For her part, Liz Truss has already announced that she has accepted the resignation of her minister and, according to the London media, she is already ready to draw her replacement: “Grant Shapps, former Secretary of Transportation, and one of Truss’s biggest critics.”
A way to calm the camp of his opponents within the Conservative Party, analysis The Times, who nevertheless seems not to place great trust in a Prime Minister “who achieved the extraordinary feat of losing his Minister of Finance and his Minister of the Interior in less than five days”.