Suella Braverman

Suella Braverman was born on April 3, 1980, to Hindu Tamil mother Uma and Goan-origin father Christie Fernandes. She was christened Sue-Ellen Cassiana ...

She was elected as an MP from the Conservative Party for Fareham in May 2015. She did her Master's in European and French law from the University of Paris 1, Pantheon-Sorbonne. Braverman’s mother came to the UK from Mauritius while her father arrived from Kenya in the 1960s. Braverman’s mother came to the UK from Mauritius while her father arrived from Kenya in the 1960s Braverman was born in Harrow and grew up in Wembley. Braverman will succeed Priti Patel in the post.

Braverman has pitched herself to the right of her predecessor – and is expected to move quickly to sideline ECHR.

In February 2018, she married Rael Braverman, a manager at Mercedes, at the House of Commons. She was made QC at the time of this appointment. Braverman has won many supporters among hardline backbenchers by her aggressive insistence that there is a culture war raging in the UK. One ally said she was unafraid about taking on vested interests. She resigned after the then Brexit secretary, Dominic Raab, walked out in disagreement over May’s proposed divorce deal with the European Union. Braverman won a partial scholarship to attend Heathfield private school before studying Law at Queens’ College, Cambridge.