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British Home Secretary Suella Braverman has been sacked by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
Last week Braverman wrote a newspaper article criticizing the Metropolitan Police's handling of a controversial pro-Palestinian Armistice Day march.
The Prime Minister came under pressure to act after Secretary Braverman was accused of undermining the operational independence of public confidence in the police.
Critics - both from opposition parties and other Tory MPs - called Braverman's comments "offensive" and "inflammatory".
In an article for The Times, Braverman claimed there was "a perception that senior police officers play favorites when it comes to protesters" and were tougher on right-wing extremists than pro-Palestinian "mobs".
She was blamed by police and Labor for helping to inflame tensions that saw far-right groups battle police near the Cenotaph on Saturday.
The five opposition parties publicly called for her dismissal on Thursday after Downing Street said the Times article, in which Braverman claimed unnamed police officers were guilty of "double standards".
We recall that it is the second time that Braverman has been forced to leave the same job in a little more than a year. Liz Truss ordered him to resign in October last year after just weeks in the job, for sending confidential information to an MP from a private email address.
Who is Suella Braverman?
Suella Braverman was born to parents of Indian origin, her mother from Mauritius, her father from Kenya, who moved to Britain in the 1960s.
She lived in France for two years, studying under the EU's Erasmus scheme, but later went on to become a staunch Brexiter, resigning from Theresa May's cabinet in 2018 over disagreements over the draft Brexit deal.
Braverman became a lawyer in 2005, where she worked on government immigration litigation, among other things. She became Tory MP for Fareham in 2015 and has been ruffling feathers ever since.
Yvette Cooper, Labour's shadow home secretary, said her peerage was “deliberately inflaming community tensions in the most dangerous way. It is very irresponsible and dangerous. "No other Home Secretary would have ever done that."
Braverman also caused outrage in her writing by comparing pro-Palestinian protests to sectarian marches in Northern Ireland.
Colum Eastwood, an MP and leader of Northern Ireland's Social Democratic and Labor Party, said: "She has managed to offend almost everyone - no small feat in a divided society."
But Braverman has been useful to Sunak in the past, using the kind of language about migration and crime that resonates in the right-wing press and with some target voters but that he is reluctant to use himself.
Braverman's time as home secretary has been marked by her efforts to stem the flow of migrants across the English Channel in small boats, including pursuing her "dream" of deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda.
A return deal with Albania has helped reduce the number of migrant crossings by about a fifth this year, and Braverman has told colleagues she is confident the Supreme Court will rule her Rwanda policy is legal.
But Braverman has not "stopped the ships" - one of Sunak's top five promises - and many Tory MPs believe she does not have a solid track record of delivery on which to base a future leadership course.
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