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Suella Braverman talar tidgare i år. (Virginia Mayo / AP)

Drar sig ur Toryvalet: ”Galen, dålig och farlig”

Sex personer har formellt registrerat sig som kandidater till att bli nästa ledare för Storbritanniens konservativa parti, rapporterar Sky News.

Det med timmar kvar tills registreringen stänger i eftermiddag.

Kemi Badenoch blev den sjätte kandidaten under natten till måndag. Ungefär samtidigt kom beskedet att tidigare inrikesminister Suella Braverman oväntat drar sig ur, och inte kommer att registrera någon formell kandidatur.

Hon menar att den interna kritiken mot henne är för omfattande för att det ska vara någon vits att försöka vinna.

– Jag har brännmärkts som galen, dålig, och farlig, säger hon i ett uttalande.

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Suella Braverman
Wikipedia (en)
Sue-Ellen Cassiana "Suella" Braverman (; née Fernandes; born 3 April 1980) is a British politician and barrister who served as Home Secretary from 6 September 2022 to 19 October 2022, and again from 25 October 2022 to 13 November 2023. A member of the Conservative Party, she was chair of the European Research Group from 2017 to 2018 and Attorney General for England and Wales from 2020 to March 2021, and again from September 2021 to 2022. She was the Member of Parliament (United Kingdom) (MP) for Fareham from 2015 until 2024 before the redrawing of UK constituency boundaries, and is currently the MP for Fareham and Waterlooville. In the January 2018 cabinet reshuffle, Braverman was appointed parliamentary under-secretary of state for exiting the European Union by Prime Minister Theresa May. In November 2018, she resigned in protest against May's draft Brexit withdrawal agreement. Braverman was appointed attorney general for England and Wales and advocate general for Northern Ireland by Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the February 2020 cabinet reshuffle; she was appointed as Queen's Counsel automatically on her appointment. Following Johnson announcing his resignation in July 2022, Braverman stood as a candidate to succeed him in the July–September Conservative Party leadership election; she was eliminated from the ballot after the second round of voting. She subsequently supported Liz Truss's bid to become Conservative leader, and was appointed home secretary on 6 September 2022 when Truss became prime minister. Braverman resigned as home secretary on 19 October 2022 following public claims that she had broken the Ministerial Code after having sent a Cabinet document using her personal email address. Six days later, she was reinstated as home secretary by Truss's successor Rishi Sunak. She was dismissed from her post by Sunak in the November 2023 British cabinet reshuffle.
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