Grants Shapps replaces Suella Braverman as home secretary

Suella Braverman has resigned arsenic location caput aft sending an authoritative papers to a parliamentary workfellow utilizing her idiosyncratic email.

Ms Braverman acknowledged this was a "technical infringement" of rules.

She said radical should judge work for mistakes and added - successful what volition beryllium seen arsenic disapproval of the PM - "pretending we haven't made mistakes... is not superior politics.

She besides utilized her resignation missive to onslaught Liz Truss's policies.

Writing to Ms Truss, she said: "I person concerns astir the absorption of this government.

"Not lone person we breached cardinal pledges that were promised to our voters, but I person had superior concerns astir this government's committedness to honouring manifesto commitments, specified arsenic reducing wide migration numbers and stopping amerciable migration, peculiarly the unsafe tiny boats crossings."

Ms Braverman is the 2nd curate to permission authorities during Ms Truss's premiership.

Her departure adds further chaos to the week for the premier minister, astatine a clip erstwhile Downing Street was hopeless to amusement unity and stableness successful government.

Ms Braverman was firmly connected the close of the party, and her resignation whitethorn good trigger further upset from immoderate of her governmental allies, specified arsenic those MPs who backed her to beryllium the Tory leader.

Her replacement, however, could beryllium different accidental for Ms Truss to effort and bring successful idiosyncratic who is not a earthy governmental state to enactment up her support.

Ms Braverman becomes the shortest serving location caput since World War Two, having been successful the occupation for lone 43 days.

Responding to her resignation, Labour's shadiness location caput Yvette Cooper said the authorities was "falling isolated adding: "To name and past sack some your location caput and chancellor wrong six weeks is utter chaos."

The Liberal Democrats Alistair Carmichael said: "The lone solution present is simply a General Election truthful the nationalist tin get disconnected this carousel of Conservative chaos."