UK home secretary sacked in Cabinet reshuffle: Report

By Burak Bir

LONDON (AA) – Britain's Home Secretary Suella Braverman has been sacked in a Cabinet reshuffle, according to media reports on Monday.

The home secretary was sacked by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in a Cabinet reshuffle, BBC reported.

It came after a row over her controversial remarks on pro-Palestinian protests and her article in The Times newspaper that met with massive criticism.

Braverman sparked widespread outrage after calling the pro-Palestine protests in the UK "hate marches."

Later, she wrote an article in The Times, asserting: "I do not believe that these marches are merely a cry for help for Gaza."

"They are an assertion of primacy by certain groups -- particularly Islamists -- of the kind we are more used to seeing in Northern Ireland," she wrote.

Later, Downing Street confirmed that Braverman did not make requested edits to her article.

She was accused of emboldening far-rights groups that clashed with police on Saturday during the Armistice Day ceremony.

Sunak was reportedly urged to sack Braverman, while Paul Scully, the minister for London, said the home secretary is fueling "hatred and division" with her comments.

In addition, the country will see how the UK Supreme Court will rule on the legality of Braverman's plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.

The Rwanda plan was ruled unlawful by the Court of Appeal early this year, although the government is challenging the judgment.

The UK paid Rwanda €120 million ($146 million) upfront to facilitate the implementation of the five-year agreement which the British government hopes could help deter migrants from making the risky journey across the English Channel by small boats.

More than 44,000 migrants arrived in the UK through the English Channel last year.

Braverman, a Conservative Party MP for Fareham, was in office from September 2022.