Controversially, Suella Braverman, British Interior Minister, was sacked by Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, on Monday November 13, many British media report. “It has been the greatest privilege of my life to serve” as Minister of the Interior, declared Mr.me Braverman after his dismissal, according to the BBC. “I will have more to say in due time. »
“Today, Rishi Sunak strengthens his government team to implement long-term decisions for a better future”, the conservative party in power on X soberly communicated.
Such a reshuffle has been expected for weeks as the Prime Minister, in Downing Street for just over a year, seeks to relaunch and prepare for the parliamentary elections scheduled for next year and no later than 2025. His party, in power for almost 14 years, is far behind Labor in the polls.
Suella’s ouster Braverman comes after comments made about protests in support of civilians in Gaza which she called “hate marches”Monday October 30, before accusing the police of being more lax with demonstrators from the left than from the right, in the Times, more than a week later. A publication which had not received the agreement of Downing Street, contrary to the usual rules.
These comments were added to a series of controversies provoked in recent months by the very right-wing 43-year-old minister: she had described the arrivals of refugees as“invasion” and warned of a ” hurricane “ migratory, and had more recently estimated that the homeless slept in tents in accordance with a “chosen lifestyle”.
The dismissal of this figure from the right wing of the majority, who willingly launches into “wars” cultural, risks causing turmoil within the conservatives and reinforcing divisions, some MPs supporting her having threatened to resign if she left the government.
Several calls for resignation
Friday, November 10 in the evening, she returned to her comments, affirming that she “totally supported” the police, but several political leaders accused her of adding fuel to the fire before the procession took place, going so far as to demand her departure from the government, like the Scottish Prime Minister Humza Yousaf. “The far right was encouraged by the Minister of the Interior (…) They are now attacking the police on Armistice Day [en référence aux célébrations du 11-Novembre] (…) The position of the Minister of the Interior is untenable. She must resign”, he wrote on X, Saturday November 11.
Bringing together nearly 300,000 people on November 11, 100,000 on October 21 and tens of thousands on October 28, the London marches gave rise to several hundred arrests. But, for the most part, these marches took place peacefully, with demonstrators mainly brandishing signs “Free Palestine” or claimant ” a ceasefire “.
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Among the arrests of the demonstration on Saturday November 11, nationalist counter-protesters, notably from the English Defense League, who came by “hundreds”according to police, including Tommy Robinson, founder of the far-right group EDL.