Suella Braverman

The home secretary apologised for breaching the ministerial code but claimed the documents “did not pose any risk to national security” and were not secret or ...

I don’t think she needs to be summoned. [Terms of use,](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/user-policies-a6184151.html) [Cookie policy](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/cookie-policy-a6184186.html) and [Privacy notice.](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/privacy-policy-a6184181.html) [Privacy policy](https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en) and [Terms of service](https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en) apply. “They mustn’t knowingly disobey or break the law. “If it was deliberate, it’s a very serious matter,” he said. In a letter to the chair of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee Suella Braverman outlined further details of the breach of the ministerial code which triggered her previous resignation. The home secretary today wrote to the committee to admit sending sensitive government information to her personal email account – in a scandal that led to her resignation in the final days of Liz Truss’s government. Suella Braverman is due to appear in the House of Commons later today after she gave further details of the breach of the ministerial code which triggered her resignation as home secretary under Liz Truss. The letter sent by Suella Braverman to the home affairs committee explaining her sending of official documents to her personal email account includes details of all six occassions she admitted to. [Priti Patel blames Braverman for failure to prevent Kent asylum crisis](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/manston-asylum-home-office-braverman-patel-b2214249.html) In a letter to the Home Affairs Select Committee, Ms Braverman detailed the “mistakes” which led her to resign as home secretary in the dying days of Liz Truss’s government. [Suella Braverman](/topic/suella-braverman) has [admitted](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/suella-braverman-leak-email-documents-manston-b2214260.html) sending official documents to her personal email address on six different occasions.

UK home secretary has written to Commons' home affairs select committee to apologise for her actions.

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Suella Braverman has admitted to sending government documents to her personal email address six times during her first stint as home secretary.

She said none of the documents were top secret and using her private email in this was "reasonable in the circumstances and carried out in the public interest to enable me to do my job". In all these instances, Ms Braverman said she had forwarded the information to her email account to enable her to read documents on her private phone, while taking part in meetings on her official phone. The letter also reveals that an internal Home Office review found Ms Braverman had sent government papers to her private email six other times times during her first stint as home secretary. In her letter to the chair of the home affairs committee, Labour MP Dame Diana Johnson, Ms Braverman says she apologised to Mr Sunak for the breach when he reappointed her as home secretary. "If the home secretary wants to maintain even a shred of her dignity and credibility, she must resign now and apologise for her violations of the public's trust," Ms Chamberlain added. Labour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said Ms Braverman "has now admitted she sent government documents to her personal phone six times in 43 days - that's once in every week she was in the post".

Home secretary's letter of apology shows she did not tell officials about sending of document 'as soon as I realised my mistake'

She said there was nothing market-sensitive in the draft WMS she sent from her private email address to Hayes. I don’t think she needs to be summoned,” she said. “I think she needs to come today to the House of Commons. “The draft WMS did not contain any information relating to national security, the intelligence agencies, cybersecurity or law enforcement. But Braverman’s letter reveals she did not confess what had happened with the WMS to officials “as soon as I realised my mistake”, as she had set out in her resignation letter to Truss. She said: “I want the home affairs select committee to be reassured on the very important point about the nature of the document that I shared by mistake.

Home Secretary Suella Braverman sent official documents from her government email to her personal email address on six occasions in six weeks, according to ...

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British Home Secretary Suella Braverman has said she was "sorry for the errors of judgment" made in the use of her personal email to send a draft government ...

I am grateful to the Prime Minister for his ongoing confidence following my reappointment." How many other security lapses has she been involved in? She told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "There is a blunt immediate question, which is how many other security breaches have there been? It was not classified as SECRET or TOP SECRET." Mr Spencer said the possibility of Mr Johnson going was not a "consideration" for the prime minister. She said she had been "transparent about my mistakes" adding: "I am sorry for the errors of judgment set out above and I reiterated my apology to Mr Percy MP yesterday."

By Sam Francis · Suella Braverman has admitted to sending government documents to her personal email address six times during her first stint as home secretary.

In her letter, Ms Braverman included a list of the documents she had sent to her personal email address: In all these instances, Ms Braverman said she had forwarded the information to her email account to enable her to read documents on her private phone, while taking part in meetings on her official phone. The letter also reveals that an internal Home Office review found Ms Braverman had sent government papers to her private email six other times times during her first stint as home secretary. In her letter to the chair of the home affairs committee, Labour MP Dame Diana Johnson, Ms Braverman says she apologised to Mr Sunak for the breach when he reappointed her as home secretary. Ms Braverman says she then alerted the cabinet secretary - the head of the civil service - to her mistake, though Labour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said Ms Braverman "has now admitted she sent government documents to her personal phone six times in 43 days - that's once in every week she was in the post".

The home secretary is making a statement in the Commons as numbers held at a migrant centre rise.

He said: "I was told that the home office was finding it very difficult to secure hotel accommodation. Illegal migration is out of control and too many people are interested in playing political parlour games, covering up the truth than solving the problem." I apologised for that error. Ms Braverman told MPs: "We need to be straight with the public. The intention was that the facility would process migrants in a matter of hours before they were moved on to accommodation elsewhere. I took responsibility for it and I resigned." She promised to visit the Kent site "shortly" and in response to questions over her decision-making, said: "I have never ignored legal advice, as a former attorney general I know the importance of taking legal advice into account." She added: "On no occasion have I blocked the procurement of hotels or alternative accommodation to ease the pressure on Manston, I'm afraid that simply isn't true." [1,000 migrants crossed the English Channel in boats on Saturday](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-63446010) and a further 468 made the crossing on Sunday, according to the government. Facing questions in the Commons from Labour and Tory MPs, she said the government was "determined to address the wholly unacceptable situation which has left taxpayers with a bill of £6.8 million a day for hotel accommodation." She told MPs it was "practically impossible" to find more than 1,000 beds at short notice as she defended the decision to keep thousands of people at the Manston site. Suella Braverman has said the UK's asylum system is "broken" in response to criticisms of the migrant crisis.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has faced questions over his decision to reappoint Ms Braverman just days after she quit, but Downing Street insisted he had full ...

She said she had been “transparent about my mistakes”, adding: “I am sorry for the errors of judgment.” – Ms Braverman said at this point she realised she had made a mistake and “decided that I would inform my officials as soon as practicable”. She said the documents were sent on occasions when she was conducting meetings virtually or “related to public lines to take in interviews” when she would need to use her personal phone. Other than on October 19, “I have not used my personal email account to send official Home Office documents to other people outside of government”, she added. British Home Secretary Suella Braverman sent official documents from her government email address to her personal account address six times but insisted there was “no risk to national security”. In a lengthy statement to the Home Affairs Select Committee, Ms Braverman said she was “sorry for the errors of judgment” that resulted in her resignation from Liz Truss’s government on October 19.

Officials raised concerns that failing to move people to hotels was unlawful, sources tell the BBC.

"I was told that the Home Office was finding it very difficult to secure hotel accommodation. [That included one family who had been there for 32 days](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-63411080), sleeping on mats in a marquee. Sources told the BBC Ms Braverman's predecessor as home secretary Priti Patel had been "reluctant" to sign off on sending asylum seekers to hotels but did so because she was aware that it was her legal duty to do so. Sources familiar with the situation told the BBC she was urged to act to tackle the issues at Manston during her first spell as home secretary. The Home Office rejected claims that the advice was "deliberately ignored". The home secretary was warned by officials the government was acting outside the law by failing to provide alternative accommodation.

Accusations Home Secretary may have broken the law by failing to find enough hotel rooms for migrants.

The Home Office is struggling to find hotel accommodation, he said, adding that he now understands that this is a policy issue and a decision was taken not to book additional hotel space. They added: “The reasons for that were that the hotels were extremely expensive. It's a serious matter but we don't know the facts and we will hear from the Home Secretary this afternoon." One Home Office insider said it was “hard to dispute that there were insufficient hotels booked” though this had now been reversed in the past two weeks. There are simply far too many people and this situation should never have been allowed to develop, and I'm not sure that it hasn't almost been developed deliberately," he said. “If it was deliberate, it's a very serious matter," he said. The car crash was the decision not to book more hotel space," he said. So far this year nearly 40,000 people have crossed the Channel in small boats, compared with 28,500 for the whole of last year. The centre is designed for around 1,600, with some migrants having had to stay up to four weeks. “First, we don’t want to have people in Manston for too long. You cannot have thousands of people sent away with no plan to safely accommodate them,” they said. Secondly, we have a legal duty not to make people destitute.

Home Secretary Suella Braverman has challenged critics to try to "get rid of me", as she denied ignoring legal advice on housing asylum seekers.

That's why some people would prefer to be rid of me." They are then meant to be moved into the Home Office's asylum accommodation system, which often means a hotel. A popular MP on the right-wing of her party, Ms Braverman was keen to return as home secretary, but the scale of the challenge facing her is daunting. "I'm determined to do whatever it takes," she went on. In her statement, Ms Braverman warned against using "inflammatory language" and spoke of a "witch hunt" against her, as she attempted to rally support among Tory MPs. "The British people deserve to know which party is serious about stopping the invasion on our southern coast," Ms Braverman said, calling the current system "broken" and "out of control". Facing down critical MPs, the home secretary said she was determined to address the backlog in asylum claims and the number of migrants living in hotels. She claimed "on my watch" the use of 30 new hotels had been agreed since 6 September and she had "worked hard to find alternative accommodation to relieve the pressure at Manston". But the decisions Ms Braverman made in her first stint as home secretary have come under intense scrutiny, with some MPs calling for her to resign for a second time. Labour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said decision-making at the Home Office had "collapsed" on Ms Braverman's watch and asked how "anyone is supposed to have confidence" in her. She said her policies were designed to repel an "invasion" on the south coast. Home Secretary Suella Braverman has challenged critics to try to "get rid of me", as she rejected claims she was to blame for dire conditions at a migrant processing centre.

When Suella Braverman resigned as home secretary just under two weeks ago for breaching the ministerial code, she made a series of claims to Liz Truss, ...

The seventh occasion, on 19 October, was the incident that led to her resignation. He said his understanding was that the document “wasn’t in any way market-sensitive”. Percy told Morton about the Braverman email because he thought that potentially this was a serious breach of security. Her new account casts doubt on the claim that she reported the mistake “rapidly”. [Home Office](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/home-office) meeting for about an hour, and then went to the Commons to meet two constituents. Braverman says in her letter the document that she passed on to Hayes “did not contain any market-sensitive data as all the data contained in the document was already in the public domain”.

The home secretary was accused of refusing to approve migrants being moved to hotels from a processing centre they are only meant to spend 48 hours in, ...

She told MPs on Monday she has been "clear I made an error of judgement... Mrs Braverman said the police are not treating it as a terrorist attack. But she insisted several times during questions from MPs in the Commons this was wrong and she has actually approved the use of dozens of new hotels to accommodate migrants since Liz Truss made her home secretary in September, before she resigned and was reappointed six days later by Rishi Sunak. The home secretary is coming under increasing pressure after a report in The Times claimed she blocked the transfer of asylum seekers from Manston to new hotels and ignored legal advice that the government was illegally detaining people there. [home secretary](https://news.sky.com/topic/suella-braverman-10421) said she knew "the importance of taking legal advice into account" and never tried to stop migrants from the Manston processing centre from being sent to hotels. The home secretary was accused of refusing to approve migrants being moved to hotels from a processing centre they are only meant to spend 48 hours in, but she said that was simply wrong.

Refugee charities described the embattled home secretary's comments as “heinous” and “dehumanising”, while Labour accused her of “highly irresponsible” language ...

What would happen was, if it got to the point where people were getting worried about conditions, we would sign off on more hotels,” a source close to Ms Patel said. “By my standards that is quite a nice hotel,” she added. There are thought to be more than 4,000 people at the Manston site near Ramsgate, instead of the intended maximum of 1,600. SNP MP Anne McLaughlin said she was “disgusted ... Ms Patel suggested the problem had occurred under her successor’s watch, specifically highlighting the use of hotel rooms. However, she had concerns about the scale of their use. “We need to be straight with the public. Clare Moseley, from refugee charity Care4Calais, said: “For Suella Braverman to use language like ‘invasion’, to describe refugees - people who are themselves escaping conflict - is offensive. [Terms of use,](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/user-policies-a6184151.html) [Cookie policy](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/cookie-policy-a6184186.html) and [Privacy notice.](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/privacy-policy-a6184181.html) This is yet more evidence that Suella Braverman does not take public safety or national security seriously.” “Some 40,000 people have arrived on the south coast this year alone. We are lucky that most of us do not."

UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman took decisions to stop booking hotels for people being processed at a migration center in southeast England, resulting in ...

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Home secretary says she never blocked hotels for refugees and was not to blame for overcrowding at refugee centre.

Instead, she admitted that she was alerted to the error at around 10am, but only told her private secretary at 12.56pm. In a letter to the home affairs committee chair, Diana Johnson, she apologised for her “errors of judgment”. Braverman told MPs she had not blocked the use of hotels to ease pressure on Manston – but it was unclear whether that also meant she had not blocked their procurement. However, one source told the Guardian: “She was warned time and time again that something had to be done about Manston. They also found that the accommodation was suitable for short-term detention and noted efforts by staff to “create a calm and even welcoming atmosphere”. No 10 and the Cabinet Office had already been told. They are only meant to stay for 24 hours, but the prison watchdog found that there were no beds or access to fresh air or exercise. To suggest they are committing an act of war when that is what they are fleeing is indefensible.” “The system is broken. One minister said: “She’s just not up to the job. The centre is now housing 4,000 migrants, more than double its capacity, leading to disease and a heightened the risk of unrest. We need to be straight with the public.

As new revelations emerge, Rishi Sunak is under increasing pressure to sack the Home Secretary.

One school of thought is that Sunak wanted Braverman – or “leaky Sue” as civil servants apparently call her – to be allowed to fail, at least on policy matters. The former prime minister was ridiculed for suggesting he had the support of enough MPs to win. Yet the Prime Minister’s decision to appoint Braverman was, nevertheless, a big risk. Scrutiny of the Home Secretary will intensify after a separate centre at Dover was targeted for a petrol-bomb attack yesterday (30 October). It is claimed he guaranteed she would be his home secretary to ensure she did not give her influential endorsement to Boris Johnson. Simon Case, the Cabinet Secretary, is among the Whitehall officials said to have been furious about the appointment.

Home Secretary Suella Braverman has pledged to fix the UK's "broken" asylum system and defied opposition calls for her resignation. During a heated debate at Westminster, Ms Braverman denied she blocked the use of hotels to ease overcrowding at the ...

That's why some people would prefer to be rid of me." Among their findings were a lack of beds and no access to fresh air or exercise. "I'm determined to do whatever it takes," she went on. A spokesperson for the Home Office welcomed the report, and said officials "continue to work hard to resolve the current pressures at Manston as an urgent priority". She claimed "on my watch" the use of 30 new hotels had been agreed since 6 September and she had "worked hard to find alternative accommodation to relieve the pressure at Manston". Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said decision-making at the Home Office had "collapsed" on Ms Braverman's watch and asked how "anyone is supposed to have confidence" in her.

The home secretary says illegal migration is "out of control" amid an "invasion" on the south coast.

That's why some people would prefer to be rid of me." However, among their findings were a lack of beds and no access to fresh air or exercise. "I'm determined to do whatever it takes," she went on. A spokesperson for the Home Office welcomed the report, and said officials "continue to work hard to resolve the current pressures at Manston as an urgent priority". But the chief inspector of prisons, Charlie Taylor, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Monday that "the home office and and contractors need to get a grip". She claimed "on my watch" the use of 30 new hotels had been agreed since 6 September and she had "worked hard to find alternative accommodation to relieve the pressure at Manston". Ms Braverman described the asylum system as "hopelessly lax" and said some wanted to "be rid" of her because she was determined to fix it. Manston opened as a processing centre in February 2022, for the growing number of migrants reaching the UK in small boats and people are only supposed to be kept there for 24 hours for security and identity checks. Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said decision-making at the Home Office had "collapsed" on Ms Braverman's watch and asked how "anyone is supposed to have confidence" in her. In a heated Commons debate, she promised to fix the "hopelessly lax" asylum system, and denied blocking the use of hotels to ease acute pressure on the Manston migrant centre in Kent. Mr Taylor also said the report revealed a number of "risks" linked to the facilities. Charlie Taylor said he was planning a "swift return" to Manston after "a number of credible sources", including other watchdogs, suggested the situation at the centre had become much worse.

Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick said he would not "demonise people" seeking a better life by crossing the Channel, when asked about Suella Braverman's ...

"Bear in mind that some of these people have had incredibly long journeys. What I have done in my short tenure is wrap that up and procure even more." And I would never demonise people coming to this country in pursuit of a better life." "More hotels have been coming online almost every month throughout the whole of this year. However, he said describing people crossing the Channel as an "invasion" was a way to show the scale of the challenge "and that's what Suella Braverman was trying to express". [told MPs yesterday](https://news.sky.com/story/suella-braverman-tells-mps-she-never-ignored-legal-advice-over-manston-immigration-centre-12735186) that the public needs to know which party is serious about "stopping the invasion" of migrants on the southern coast of the UK.

Roger Gale says home secretary is only really interested in playing to the right wing of the Conservative party.

I spoke to the doctors who are on site and there is a very good medical centre there with – when I was there – three doctors plus paramedics supporting people with medical conditions. The problem is that thousands of people are crossing the channel illegally every day. The hearing is expected to last two days with judgment at a later date. That is the right approach and the right direction of travel. But that is essentially the symptom of the problem. I’m afraid you’re going to have to wait for the chancellor’s statement in just a couple of weeks. It is not designed to be somewhere where people stay for a prolonged period of time. What’s happening at Manston when I visited was people were sleeping on the floors, on the rubber mats down on the floors and then very thin blankets or mattresses. We are at the point where governments have to recognise they can’t do this by efficiency savings. The home secretary’s approach is the wrong direction of travel, I believe. At 12.30pm a culture minister will respond to a UQ about cuts to BBC local radio, and after 1pm a Home Office minister will respond to a UQ about reports that the Chinese are operating “police stations” in the UK. After 1.30pm Tom Tugenhdat, the security minister, will give a statement on national security, and after 2.30pm Mark Spencer, the farming minister will give a statement on avian flu.