A look at Suella Braverman’s turbulent time as Secretary of the Interior.

Suella Braverman has embraced controversy during her time as a senior member of the Conservative government.

A far-right, divisive politician, Ms Braverman, 43, has now been dismissed twice from the position of Home Secretary, once on Monday by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, and once by his predecessor, Liz Truss.

The Home Secretary is responsible for law enforcement, immigration and national security, but Ms Braverman’s tough stance on these issues has often sparked divisive cultural debates in Britain due to her inflammatory rhetoric.

Her steadfast immigration policies, including plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, have been denounced by rights groups, criticized by opposition politicians and challenged in the country’s highest courts.

Here’s a look at some of Ms. Braverman’s most prominent disputes.

A malicious email leak.

Ms Braverman was first appointed Home Secretary in September 2022 by Ms Truss – whose term as Prime Minister became the shortest in British history – but was sacked less than two months later over a security breach.

Using her personal email address, she had sent a government document to another lawmaker who was not authorized to see it. Despite her resignation, Ms Braverman was reappointed as Home Secretary six days later, on Mr Sunak’s first day in office.

That decision was criticized not only by the opposition, but also by lawmakers on Parliament’s Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee later issued a report detailing how “leaking restricted material merits significant sanction.” A “further change of prime minister should not wipe the slate clean,” the report said.

A period of divisive rhetoric.

Throughout her time in office, Ms. Braverman has often proven to be a divisive figure, with comments that have angered opposition politicians, drawn condemnation from rights groups and religious leaders and even been criticized by some members of her own party.

Last year, Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, joined a number of other religious leaders in denouncing her description of the asylum seekers arriving on Britain’s south coast as a “invasion.”

If we fail to challenge this rhetoric, he said“we deny the essential value and dignity of our fellow human beings.”

Ms. Braverman has also been criticized for inaccurate stories that play on right-wing tropes, including: writing in the Daily Mail that gangs preying on young women were “almost all British-Pakistani” men. A 2020 Home Office report concluded that perpetrators of group-based child sexual exploitation are mostly white men, and the press regulator called the comments misleading. The Daily Mail later withdrew the reference.

Earlier this month it emerged that Ms Braverman wanted to create a new law to prevent charities from providing tents for the homeless. In a later post on Xshe described homelessness as a “lifestyle choice.”

She was denounced by rights groups and rebuked by another conservative lawmaker, Bob Blackman, who oversees a government panel on homelessness.

An immigration policy that is being challenged in court.

Ms. Braverman is perhaps best known for her determination to stop the small boats crossing the English Channel filled with migrants seeking asylum.

Last year the government introduced a plan that would send people who arrive in Britain through “illegal, dangerous or unnecessary methods” to Rwanda to have their asylum claims processed. While the plan was first announced by Ms. Braverman’s predecessor, Priti Patel, Ms. Braverman was a staunch supporter of the policy and pushed the policy to the forefront.