Suella Braverman

The Right Honourable Suella Braverman KC MP
Official portrait, 2022
Home Secretary
In office 25 October 2022 – 13 November 2023
Prime Minister	Rishi Sunak
Preceded by	Grant Shapps
Succeeded by	James Cleverly
In office 6 September 2022 – 19 October 2022
Prime Minister	Liz Truss
Preceded by	Priti Patel
Succeeded by	Grant Shapps
Attorney General for England and Wales Advocate General for Northern Ireland
In office 10 September 2021 – 6 September 2022
Prime Minister	Boris Johnson
Preceded by	Michael Ellis
Succeeded by	Michael Ellis
In office 13 February 2020 – 2 March 2021
Prime Minister	Boris Johnson
Preceded by	Geoffrey Cox
Succeeded by	Michael Ellis
Minister on Leave
In office 2 March 2021 – 10 September 2021
Prime Minister	Boris Johnson
Interim	Michael Ellis[a]
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union
In office 9 January 2018 – 15 November 2018
Prime Minister	Theresa May
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Kwasi Kwarteng
Chair of the European Research Group
In office 19 June 2017 – 9 January 2018
Deputy	Michael Tomlinson
Preceded by	Steve Baker
Succeeded by	Jacob Rees-Mogg
Deputy Chair of the European Research Group
In office 20 November 2016 – 19 June 2017 Serving with Michael Tomlinson
Chair	Steve Baker
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Michael Tomlinson
Member of Parliament for Fareham
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 May 2015
Preceded by	Mark Hoban
Majority	26,086 (45.6%)
Personal details
Born	Sue-Ellen Cassiana Fernandes (1980-04-03) 3 April 1980 (age 44) Harrow, London, England
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	Rael Braverman ​ (m. 2018)​
Children	2
Alma mater	Queens' College, Cambridge Panthéon-Sorbonne University
Signature
Website	suellabraverman.co.uk

Sue-Ellen Cassiana "Suella" Braverman KC (/suˈɛlə ˈbrævərmən/;^[1] née Fernandes; born 3 April 1980) is a British politician and barrister who served as Home Secretary from 6 September 2022 to 19 October 2022, and again from 25 October 2022 to 13 November 2023. 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 March 2021, and again from September 2021 to 2022. She has been the MP for Fareham since 2015.

In the January 2018 cabinet reshuffle, Braverman was appointed parliamentary under-secretary of state for exiting the European Union by Prime Minister Theresa May. In November 2018, she resigned in protest against May's draft Brexit withdrawal agreement. Braverman was appointed attorney general for England and Wales and advocate general for Northern Ireland by Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the February 2020 cabinet reshuffle; she was appointed as Queen's Counsel automatically on her appointment.

Following Johnson announcing his resignation in July 2022, Braverman stood as a candidate to succeed him in the July–September Conservative Party leadership election; she was eliminated from the ballot after the second round of voting. She subsequently supported Liz Truss's bid to become Conservative leader, and was appointed home secretary on 6 September 2022 when Truss became prime minister. Braverman resigned as home secretary on 19 October 2022 following public claims that she had broken the Ministerial Code after having sent a Cabinet document using her personal email address. Six days later, she was reinstated as home secretary by Truss's successor Rishi Sunak. She was dismissed from her post by Sunak in the November 2023 British cabinet reshuffle.

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