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Sunak dismisses Braverman as Home Secretary

On 13 November 2023 Prime Minister Rishi Sunak dismissed Suella Braverman as Home Secretary after she defied Downing Street with a newspaper article accusing the Metropolitan Police of bias in policing pro-Palestinian marches. James Cleverly replaced her at the Home Office, and former prime minister David Cameron returned as foreign secretary in the wider reshuffle that followed.

Suella Braverman (Wikimedia Commons portrait; person avatar reused as fact cover, land-pack1 pattern).

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On 13 November 2023 Prime Minister Rishi Sunak dismissed Suella Braverman as Home Secretary after she defied Downing Street with a newspaper article accusing the Metropolitan Police of bias in policing pro-Palestinian marches. James Cleverly replaced her at the Home Office, and former prime minister David Cameron returned as foreign secretary in the wider reshuffle that followed.

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  • Suella Braverman

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    Sunak dismisses Braverman as Home Secretary. Actor role on this event; contribution size permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction). Contribution size is permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction); provisional 0.4 stored because contributions.size is NOT NULL.

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  1. 1.theguardian.com — sourcetheguardian.com · verified
  2. 2.bbc.co.uk — sourcebbc.co.uk · verified
  3. 3.theguardian.comchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, keywords: braverman+sack+police · verified
  4. 4.independent.co.ukchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, keywords: braverman+sack+police · verified

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Factrail. (2026). Sunak dismisses Braverman as Home Secretary. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/sunak-sacks-braverman-2023-11-13

https://factrail.ai/facts/sunak-sacks-braverman-2023-11-13

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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