Status: 10/19/2022 6:24 p.m
The British cabinet loses the next minister: Home Secretary Braverman has submitted her resignation. The reason she gave was sending an official email via her private account and doubts about the government course.
UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman has resigned. She cited a mistake as the reason: she had sent an official government document via a personal email account. “I made a mistake, I accept responsibility, I resign,” she wrote to Prime Minister Liz Truss. She also has serious doubts about the direction of the Truss government. Key election promises were broken.
British media had previously reported that Braverman was no longer Home Secretary, but it was unclear whether she had been sacked or had resigned herself.
The right-wing hardliner of the Tories has repeatedly made a name for herself with statements about her plans for tougher action on deportations. She recently railed against “tofu-eating” leftists in parliament. There has been speculation that Grant Shapps, a former British transport secretary, could now become the new home secretary.
Prime Minister rejects own resignation
It was only on Friday that Prime Minister Truss, who was also under fire from within her own ranks, fired her finance minister, Kwasi Kwarteng. But Truss again rejected her own resignation: “I’m a fighter and not a shirker,” she replied in parliament when the leader of the opposition Labor Party, Keir Starmer, asked why she was still there at all. “I made it clear that I’m sorry and that I made mistakes,” said Truss.
“The search for a successor has been going on behind the scenes for days”, Sven Lohmann, ARD London, on Truss’ question time in the British House of Commons
Tagesschau 3:00 p.m., 19.10.2022
Much trouble about tax plans
It was the first Question Time with the Prime Minister in the British House of Commons following her U-turn on tax plans last week and earlier this week. Truss has only been in office since the beginning of September. However, she is already under a lot of pressure. Due to a lack of counter-financing, your tax cut package had led to turbulence on the financial markets and to severe resentment in the ranks of the governing party.
As a result, Truss initially had her confidante, Finance Minister Kwasi Kwarteng, withdraw the planned tax cut for top earners. She released him on Friday. The new Treasury Secretary Jeremy Hunt almost completely overturned the planned financial package on Monday.
Truss under pressure – How does she survive Parliament’s question time
Gabi Biesinger, ARD London, 10/19/2022 2:59 p.m