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Sue-Ellen Cassiana "Suella" Braverman KC (née Fernandes, born 3 April 1980) is a British politician and barrister who served as Home Secretary from 6 September to 19 October 2022 (under Liz Truss) and 25 October 2022 to 13 November 2023 (under Rishi Sunak). 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 2022. She has been the member of Parliament (MP) for Fareham in Hampshire since 2015. Before her marriage to Rael Braverman in February 2018, she was known as Suella Fernandes.
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“It is no betrayal of my parents' story to say that immigration must be controlled.”
- Suella Braverman, 2023)
Delivered after a crushing defeat, Suella Braverman's blunt assessment of Tory losses in July 2024, as reported by *The Independent*, fueled leadership speculation.
“We were slaughtered. Shellacked. Given a good hiding. Kicked while we were on the ground. Headbutted by reality.”
- Suella Braverman, 2024)
“If cultural change is too rapid and too big, then what was already there is diluted. Eventually it will disappear.”
- Suella Braverman, 2023)
“The answer must be: even-handedly. Unfortunately, there is a perception that senior police officers play favourites when it comes to protesters.”
- Suella Braverman, 2023)
“I'm here in America to talk about a critical and shared global challenge: uncontrolled and illegal migration [...] It is an existential challenge for the political and cultural institutions of the west.”
- Suella Braverman, 2023)
“I condemn the appalling disorder in Knowsley last night. The alleged behaviour of some asylum seekers is never an excuse for violence and intimidation. Thank you to*erseypolice officers for keeping everyone safe.”
- Suella Braverman, 2023)
“People like my Rt Hon Friend the Member for North East Somerset and Douglas Murray express mainstream, insightful and perfectly decent political views. People may disagree with them, but in no way are they extremists.”
- Suella Braverman, 2023)
Amidst controversy surrounding pro-Palestinian protests, this quote highlights perceived disparities in policing between right-wing demonstrators and pro-Palestinian groups in London.
“Right-wing and nationalist protesters who engage in aggression are rightly met with a stern response yet pro-Palestinian mobs displaying almost identical behaviour are largely ignored, even when clearly breaking the law?”
- Suella Braverman, 2023)
“The British people are compassionate. We will always support those who are genuinely homeless. But we cannot allow our streets to be taken over by rows of tents occupied by people, many of them from abroad, living on the streets as a lifestyle choice.”
- Suella Braverman, 2023)
Home Secretary Suella Braverman sparked controversy in November 2023 by suggesting that homeless people living in tents are making a "lifestyle choice," prompting criticism and debate.
“What I want to stop, and what the law abiding majority wants us to stop, is those who cause nuisance and distress to other people by pitching tents in public spaces, aggressively begging, stealing, taking drugs, littering, and blighting our communities.”
- Suella Braverman, 2023)
“If we keep disagreeing with Reform on many and fundamental things, we won't get those votes back.
We have no God-given right to them. Any Tory leader who rejects Reform voters, doubles down on the disastrous decisions the last cabinet let Rishi Sunak make.”
We have no God-given right to them. Any Tory leader who rejects Reform voters, doubles down on the disastrous decisions the last cabinet let Rishi Sunak make.”
- Suella Braverman, 2024)
“Our problem is us. Our problem is that the liberal Conservatives who trashed the Tory party think it was everyone’s fault but their own.
My party governed as liberals and we were defeated as liberals. But seemingly, as ever, it is Conservatives who are to blame.”
My party governed as liberals and we were defeated as liberals. But seemingly, as ever, it is Conservatives who are to blame.”
- Suella Braverman, 2024)
Former Justice Secretary Robert Buckland criticised a statement asserting Islamist and antisemitic control over the UK, deeming it inaccurate and inflammatory.
“The truth is that the Islamists, the extremists and the anti-Semites are in charge now. They have bullied the Labour Party, they have bullied our institutions, and now they have bullied our country into submission.”
- Suella Braverman, 2024)
“Those prognosticators of doom who said that Brexit would be an economic catastrophe for the UK – not only were they wrong, they demonstrated a profound ignorance of the British people when they attributed their legitimate desire to regain our national sovereignty as some mix of stupidity and xenophobia.”
- Suella Braverman, 2023)
“Now as we approach a particularly significant weekend in the life of our nation, one which calls for respect and commemoration, the hate marchers — a phrase I do not resile from — intend to use Armistice Day to parade through London in yet another show of strength.”
- Suella Braverman, 2023)
Facing cabinet opposition after the European Court of Human Rights stymied his Rwanda plan, the speaker advocates leaving the ECHR to fully control UK borders.
“[T]o regain control of our borders properly and faithfully to the British people we do need to ultimately leave the European Convention on Human Rights. Judging from my conversations with him [Rishi Sunak], he never agreed with me on the proposition that I just set out.”
- Suella Braverman, 2024)
“Italy have reinforced their borders. They’ve built a wall – I went to see that wall, they built a wall on the land border between Italy and Turkey. As cited in Craig Munro, Suella Braverman makes bizarre claim Italy and Turkey have a land border, Metro UK (20 January 2025)”
- Suella Braverman, 2025-present)
“If we don't recover the voters we deliberately, and arrogantly, spurned, we will turn the Conservative Party into the 21st century version of the 20th century Liberal Party.
And we can do better than being a collection of fanatical, irrelevant, centrist cranks, who make it our business to insult our should-be voters for not being as smug and self-righteous as we are.”
And we can do better than being a collection of fanatical, irrelevant, centrist cranks, who make it our business to insult our should-be voters for not being as smug and self-righteous as we are.”
- Suella Braverman, 2024)
“I get a lot of abuse. I get trolled, Twitter has a very strong left wing bias [...] Actually for me, my barometer, it's got to this point where if I get trolled and I provoke a bad response on Twitter I know I'm doing the right thing. Twitter is a sewer of left-wing bile and there's very little sensible, moderate voices either way actually get drowned out. The extreme left pile on is often a consequence of sound conservative values.”
- Suella Braverman, 2022)
Speaking at the American Enterprise Institute, Suella Braverman argued that the Refugee Convention's threshold had been lowered, creating an unsustainable asylum system.
“[Claiming the threshold of the Refugee Convention had been lowered for asylum seekers] Where individuals are being persecuted, it is right that we offer sanctuary. But we will not be able to sustain an asylum system if, in effect, simply being gay, or a woman, and fearful of discrimination in your country of origin is sufficient to qualify for protection.”
- Suella Braverman, 2023)
Braverman defends UK immigration by highlighting her parents' immigrant experience, contrasting it with the specific hardships faced by Kenyan Asians detailed by Kadri.
“[On her parent's arrival in the UK] My father came to the UK to escape the Kenyan Asian crisis in 1968. His arrival probably saved his life. My mother was recruited in Mauritius as a girl of 18, and she has just passed her 45th year of service as a nurse. More passionate patriots cannot be imagined. It is clear that immigration has brought huge benefits to this country. We have a proud tradition of offering refuge, opportunity and a better life to those who take the risk of leaving their homeland.”
- Suella Braverman, 2015)
“Uncontrolled immigration, inadequate integration and a misguided dogma of multiculturalism have proven a toxic combination for Europe over the last few decades.
Multiculturalism makes no demands of the incomer to integrate. It has failed because it allowed people to come to our society and live parallel lives in it. They could be in the society but not of the society.
And, in extreme cases, they could pursue lives aimed at undermining the stability and threatening the security of society.”
Multiculturalism makes no demands of the incomer to integrate. It has failed because it allowed people to come to our society and live parallel lives in it. They could be in the society but not of the society.
And, in extreme cases, they could pursue lives aimed at undermining the stability and threatening the security of society.”
- Suella Braverman, 2023)
“[On the Conservative's electoral rival, Reform UK] We need to, in the future, to find some way to work together because there shouldn’t be big differences between us. [...] I would welcome Nigel [Farage] into the Conservative party. There's not much difference really between him and many of the policies that we stand for.
We are a broad church, we should be a welcoming party and an inclusive party and if someone is supportive of the party, that's a precondition and they want Conservatives to get elected then they should be welcomed.”
We are a broad church, we should be a welcoming party and an inclusive party and if someone is supportive of the party, that's a precondition and they want Conservatives to get elected then they should be welcomed.”
- Suella Braverman, 2024)
“[On her parents] They owe everything to this country and they have taught me a deep and profound love of Britain and British people. Their tolerance, their generosity, their decency, their fair play.
That also means that we must not shy away from saying there is a problem. There is a huge problem that we have right now when it comes to illegal migration, the scale of which we have not known before.
I won’t apologise for the language that I have used to demonstrate the scale of the problem. I see my job as being honest with the British people and honest for the British people.
I’m not going to shy away from difficult truths nor am I going to conceal what is the reality that we are all watching.”
That also means that we must not shy away from saying there is a problem. There is a huge problem that we have right now when it comes to illegal migration, the scale of which we have not known before.
I won’t apologise for the language that I have used to demonstrate the scale of the problem. I see my job as being honest with the British people and honest for the British people.
I’m not going to shy away from difficult truths nor am I going to conceal what is the reality that we are all watching.”
- Suella Braverman, 2023)
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Suella Braverman on Cultural Marxism
“We are engaging in many battles right now. As Conservatives we are engaged in a battle against cultural Marxism, where banning things is becoming de rigueur; where freedom of speech is becoming a taboo; where our universities, quintessential institutions of liberalism, are being shrouded in censorship and a culture of no-platforming.”
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“I have been wondering what, if anything, might persuade Suella Braverman that her rhetoric and strategy to slash immigration might conceivably have gone too far. Nigel Farage staging an intervention? Tommy Robinson calling for a "cooling-off period"? A social media post by Donald Trump urging the home secretary to "take it easy over there in Scotland"?”
Matthew d'Ancona on Suella Braverman
“On Monday, at the "National Conservative" conference in London, she declared that net annual migration to the UK must be reduced as a matter of urgency, lest Britons become irrevocably "dependent" on foreign labour and start "forgetting how to do things for ourselves".”
Martin Fletcher on Suella Braverman
“[M]uch about Braverman is startling. She is the Home Secretary who was sacked for leaking a government document, but reinstated six days later; the former attorney general who condoned the government’s breaking of international law; the erstwhile barrister who wants to curb the power of the judiciary; the daughter of first-generation immigrants who wants to slash both legal and illegal immigration. At October’s Conservative Party conference, she fantasised about a Telegraph front page showing a deportation plane taking off for Rwanda. "That’s my dream," she said. "That’s my obsession." Braverman is a Brexit "ultra". She defends the empire. She deplores "cultural Marxism", net-zero targets, the police "policing pronouns on Twitter" and "Benefit Street culture". Last month she blamed the disruption caused by climate protestors on "Guardian-reading, tofu-eating wokerati".”
William Hague on Suella Braverman
“[Following Braverman's removal as Home Secretary] Being a forceful personality or associated with a particular wing of the party does not stop you being a successful senior minister. But persistently making statements from which your colleagues feel compelled to back away certainly does. Braverman ruined many good arguments with language that did not sit well with the need for a home secretary to encourage calm, good order and an appreciation throughout the country that we have to understand the views of others.”
George Osborne on the on Suella Braverman
Speaking on a podcast, former Chancellor George Osborne predicted that Rishi Sunak would prevail in a power struggle with then-Home Secretary Suella Braverman, citing the diminished influence of ex-ministers.
“If he fired her there would be a big row, there would be a lot of fireworks. But ultimately, prime ministers tend to win those encounters because the Home Secretary will suddenly become a backbencher. And then she’ll quickly lose her purchase - think of Priti Patel. No disrespect to Priti, but she's not as powerful a voice on the backbenches as she was as Home Secretary.”
From a series of tweets by on Suella Braverman
Conservative MP William Wragg sarcastically recounts Home Secretary Suella Braverman's early interest in expensing speeding tickets, revealed via Twitter in April 2023.
“My clearest recollection of our Home Secretary’s legal acumen came from day one as an MP [in 2015]. We had a presentation from IPSA UK. Her question to IPSA concerned whether a speeding ticket occurred during the course of parliamentary duties could be claimed on expenses [...] Rather embarrassed, the representative from IPSA said no. [...] Thank goodness our Nation has been blessed with such a fine Attorney General and Home Secretary.”
About Suella Braverman
Sue-Ellen Cassiana "Suella" Braverman KC (née Fernandes, born 3 April 1980) is a British politician and barrister who served as Home Secretary from 6 September to 19 October 2022 (under Liz Truss) and 25 October 2022 to 13 November 2023 (under Rishi Sunak). 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 2022. She has been the member of Parliament (MP) for Fareham in Hampshire since 2015. Before her marriage to Rael Braverman in February 2018, she was known as Suella Fernandes.