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Truss Fires Home Secretary With UK Government at Risk of Imploding
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0:49Now PlayingLiz Truss fired Home Secretary Suella Braverman for what was described as a national security breach, a dramatic move that will inevitably heap even more pressure on Britain’s premier as she clings to power.
Braverman shared secret documents on a personal mobile phone, four officials familiar with the matter said. She later acknowledged a “technical infringement of the rules” by sending an official document from her personal email, the contents of which she said had already been briefed to MPs.
But in a loaded message to Truss posted on Twitter, Braverman wrote: “The business of government relies upon people accepting responsibility for their mistakes. Pretending we haven’t made mistakes, carrying on as if everyone can’t see that we have made them, and hoping that things will magically come right is not serious politics.”
The development is a major blow to Truss, who is struggling to prevent her government from imploding around her following a disastrous six weeks in office. Later on Wednesday, she faces the prospect of a major Tory rebellion in a Parliament vote on shale gas fracking.
Truss’s advisers are also concerned other members of her Cabinet are planning to resign to try to force the UK prime minister out of office.
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