UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman acknowledged Monday in a letter to the Home Affairs Select Committee that she breached security protocols on up to six occasions in a particularly sensitive context due to the failed economic policy that led to the departure of former British Prime Minister Liz Truss.
«I sent official documents from my government email to my personal email address on six occasions,» detailed in her letter Braverman, who, after resigning for admitting a first offence, returned to the post of home affairs minister under the new ‘premier’, Rishi Sunak.
Thus, after apologizing again for these infractions, which made her resign in mid-October, she justified that her reason for sending these emails to her personal phone was that she sometimes held virtual meetings or interviews related to her work while she was traveling.
«It was not possible to use a single device to conduct the meetings and read the documents at the same time,» she has said, adding that, «occasionally and exceptionally,» she used this method to be able to read documents to «conduct essential business.»
Braverman left Liz Truss’ cabinet on October 18, just two days before the head of government announced her own departure. The minister then attributed her resignation to a «bureaucratic» problem after acknowledging that she had sent from her personal email «part of a political commitment» on migration to another MP.
The Interior Minister resigned after detailing that the recipient of the email was a «trusted» member of parliament, although she stressed that the way in which this information was transferred constituted «a technical breach of the rules».
Braverman also alluded that the British Executive was going through a «tumultuous» time and that he had «concerns» about the direction of former minister Truss’s government which, he said, broke «key promises», especially in the area of migration.
He stressed the importance of owning up to mistakes and stepping aside, without waiting for problems to be «magically» solved, implying that the departure had a strong component of unease with Truss’s management, something Braverman never acknowledged.
The Home Secretary also generated controversy after assuring that her «dream», her «obsession», was to see how a plane deports to Rwanda those seeking asylum in the United Kingdom, in relation to the migratory measure with which London intends to send to the African country those who arrive irregularly in the country while they decide what to do with their applications.
