Who has been appointed as home secretary?

Suella Braverman was sacked as home secretary after the prime minister came under pressure to remove her from office following a series of inflammatory remarks. Over the weekend, figures including Sadiq Khan urged Sunak to act after accusing her of riling up the far-right amid political protests. The Mayor of London said violent clashes involving counter-protesters were a “direct result” of the home secretary’s words, after she accused the Metropolitan police of bias towards “pro-Palestinian mobs”.

Braverman also came under fire for proposing new laws to restrict the use of tents by homeless people, arguing that many of them see it as a “lifestyle choice”. In response to her plan to introduce new penalties for homeless people who authorities believe have rejected offers of help, housing charity Shelter said: “Nobody should be punished for being homeless.”

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