Suella Braverman in denial over forced resignation, sources say

Suella Braverman was "amazed" and "in denial" implicit being forced to resign for breaching the ministerial code, according to sources.

Ms Braverman stood down arsenic past PM Liz Truss's location caput connected 19 October aft admitting to a "technical infringement" by sending an authoritative papers from a idiosyncratic email account.

A fig of sources person disputed Ms Braverman's mentation of events.

Rishi Sunak is facing questions implicit reappointing her six days later.

The caller premier curate defended his determination to marque Ms Braverman his location secretary, saying "she made an mistake of judgment, but she recognised that, she raised the substance and she accepted her mistake".

The BBC has spoken to respective radical with cognition of the events surrounding Ms Braverman's resignation.

A fig of them quality Ms Braverman's assertion to person reported her mistake to the furniture caput - the caput of the civilian work - arsenic soon arsenic she realised.

When confronted astir her transgression she attempted to play down and explicate distant what had happened, sources suggested.

Ms Braverman had emailed a draught written ministerial connection connected migration argumentation to her adjacent governmental ally, Conservative MP Sir John Hayes, utilizing her idiosyncratic email alternatively of her authoritative authorities account.

The papers made notation to plans to "make changes to the visa strategy to enactment economical growth" and to "ensure our visa strategy supports precedence maturation projects" and "extending the precocious imaginable idiosyncratic visa route", the BBC understands.

Ms Braverman had intended to transcript successful Sir John Hayes's wife, who works successful his office. But she chose the incorrect recipient and alternatively sent it to a unit subordinate of different Conservative MP, Andrew Percy, aboriginal successful the greeting of 19 October.

When Mr Percy became alert of what had happened, helium approached the main whip, who is liable for enactment discipline. The main whip successful crook passed the contented connected to Number 10 and the Cabinet Office.

It's understood Mr Percy's bureau besides made Ms Braverman alert of the mistake soon aft the mistaken email was received.

Cabinet Secretary Simon Case advised past premier curate Ms Truss that "it was an unfastened and unopen lawsuit of the ministerial codification being breached", according to 1 authorities insider. He had not by past been approached by the location caput herself, according to sources.

Downing Street has insisted it won't remark connected the "timeline" of events.

One root told maine "initially [Ms Braverman] was successful a authorities of denial" erstwhile Ms Truss made it wide that day she would person to resign.

"She was saying it was a insignificant thing," the aforesaid root added.

Another said Ms Braverman was "amazed" that Ms Truss took the presumption she did.

A root adjacent to the location caput said immoderate proposition she was confronted by the furniture caput with grounds of the breach was false, adding: "In beforehand of the gathering with the premier minister, she had communicated it proactively via authoritative channels, to the furniture secretary."

Instead of waiting for the resignation to beryllium choreographed by Number 10, Ms Braverman published her resignation letter connected Twitter past Wednesday evening.

In the letter, Ms Braverman said she had "serious concerns" astir Ms Truss's government's committedness to reducing migration numbers.

Labour is calling connected Mr Sunak to sack Ms Braverman, claiming that she proses a imaginable information risk.

The absorption enactment is besides demanding "urgent reassurances" that the leaked email did not incorporate "market delicate information".