Suella Braverman has been called on to resign as Home Secretary for a second time after she admitted sending official documents from her UK Government email to her personal account address six times.
A Home Office review identified the incidents after she was forced to resign for breaching the ministerial code by sending a draft government statement to an ally from her personal account.
Rishi Sunak has faced questions over his decision to reappoint Braverman as Home Secretary just days after she quit. Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said there were "serious questions" about Braverman’s conduct and the Prime Minister was "irresponsible in reappointing her".In a lengthy statement to the Home Affairs Select Committee, Braverman said she was "sorry for the errors of judgment" that resulted in her resignation from Liz Truss’s government on October 19.She set out details of the email blunder, revealing that although the message was sent at 7.25am and she realised she had also inadvertently sent it to the wrong person at around 10am, it was hours before she confessed to officials what had happened.A subsequent review of her use of her personal email revealed six instances where documents were sent from her work account to her private one, including papers on migration policy and public disorder.She said the documents were sent on occasions when she was conducting meetings virtually or "related to public lines to take in interviews" when she would need to use her personal phone.“None of the documents in question concerned national security, intelligence agency or cybersecurity matters, and did not pose any risk to national security,” she said.Other than on October 19, “I have not used my personal email account to send
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