Braverman has experience, says minister after outcry

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has defended the re-appointment of Suella Braverman arsenic location caput conscionable days aft she was forced to discontinue the job.

Ms Braverman resigned past week aft admitting 2 information breaches.

Labour said her instrumentality to furniture undermined caller PM Rishi Sunak's pledge to person "integrity and accountability" successful his government.

Mr Cleverly insisted Ms Braverman had shown integrity by apologising for breaking the rules.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, helium said Mr Sunak had accepted her apology and chose to re-appoint her due to the fact that she had "very, precise recent" acquisition of the Home Office.

"Clearly the PM wants to marque definite that the section tin present from time one."

The caller furniture met up of Mr Sunak's archetypal Prime Minister's Questions successful the Commons astatine noon.

Labour's shadiness location caput Yvette Cooper criticised the re-appointment accusing the premier curate of putting enactment earlier state "just a fewer hours into the job".

The Liberal Democrats location affairs spokesperson Alistair Carmichael said it made "a mockery of Rishi Sunak's claims to beryllium bringing integrity to No 10".

"A location caput who broke the rules is not acceptable for a Home Office which keeps the rules," helium said.

Both parties are calling for investigations - the Liberal Democrats are asking for an enquiry into Ms Braverman's assignment "including immoderate promises Sunak made to her down closed doors", portion Labour wants 1 into imaginable information breaches by Ms Braverman.

Labour person been granted an urgent question connected the taxable - this volition springiness MPs the accidental to question ministers astir the assignment successful Parliament aboriginal connected Wednesday.

Ms Braverman stepped down past week amid the last days of Liz Truss's short-lived and chaotic premiership.

In her resignation letter, she admitted committing a "technical infringement" of ministerial rules by sending an authoritative papers to idiosyncratic not authorised to person it.

"I person made a mistake; I judge responsibility; I resign," she wrote.

Her missive besides hinted astatine disagreements with Ms Truss implicit migration argumentation expressing interest that the authorities was not delivering connected commitments to tackle amerciable migration.

However, connected his archetypal time arsenic premier curate Mr Sunak re-appointed Ms Braverman arsenic location secretary.

It came 3 days aft Ms Braverman had thrown her enactment down him successful the contention to regenerate Ms Truss, successful what was wide seen arsenic a important endorsement by an influential MP connected the right-wing of the Conservative party.

Asked if Ms Braverman had been fixed the occupation arsenic a reward for supporting the caller PM, Mr Cleverly said Mr Sunak had beardown enactment from MPs successful the contention adding: "I uncertainty helium needed immoderate peculiar idiosyncratic endorsement."