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British government in turmoil following resignation of Braverman

LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 11: Home Secretary Suella Braverman arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street on October 11, 2022.(Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

LIZ TRUSS' government is on the brink of collapse after Home Secretary Suella Braverman resigned yesterday, prompting a wave of criticism in the Prime Minister and calls from some Tory MPs for her to go.

There was also mayhem over a fracking vote yesterday evening, which was viewed as a confidence motion in the PM, and confusion over whether the Chief Whip Wendy Morton and Deputy Chief Whip Craig Whittaker had also resigned.

There had been speculation that they walked out after a last-minute U-turn on a threat to strip the whip from Conservative MPs if they backed a Labour challenge over fracking.

Braverman's resignation comes just five days after Truss sacked Kwasi Kwarteng as chancellor.

Reports of some Tory MPs being "manhandled" and pressured into the "no" lobby on the fracking motion emerged yesterday evening.

Labour's fracking ban motion was defeated by 230 votes to 326, with the division list showing 40 Conservative MPs did not vote.

In her resignation letter, she admitted to sending an official document from her personal email address to a parliamentary colleague.

She acknowledged that constituted a "technical infringement of the rules", but made clear a major rift with Ms Truss in her resignation letter.

"It is obvious to everyone that we are going through a tumultuous time," she wrote.

"I have concerns about the direction of this government. Not only have we broken key pledges that were promised to our voters, but I have had serious concerns about this government's commitment to honouring manifesto commitments, such as reducing overall migration numbers and stopping illegal migration, particularly the dangerous small boats crossings."

She said the British public "deserve policing they can respect, an immigration policy they want and voted for in such unambiguous numbers at the last election, and laws which serve the public good, and not the interest of selfish protestors."

Braverman had been an advocate for the controversial policy to send migrants entering the UK to Rwanda, and was recently quoted as saying is was her "dream" to see it happen.

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