# Suella Braverman **Suella Braverman** (born 3 April 1980) is a British MP, a former Conservative Home Secretary and Attorney General, and since **26 January 2026** a member of [[Reform UK]]. She was a leading voice of the Conservatives' hard-right immigration wing. Her move to Reform, completing a run of defections that January, is the clearest single sign of the Conservative collapse the vault tracks on [[Conservative Party (UK)]]. ## Career | Years | Role | |---|---| | 2015–24 | MP for Fareham; since 2024, Fareham and Waterlooville | | Feb 2020 – Sept 2022 | Attorney General (with a maternity break in 2021) | | Sept 6 – Oct 19, 2022 | Home Secretary under Liz Truss; resigned after sending a cabinet document from her personal email | | Oct 25, 2022 – Nov 13, 2023 | Home Secretary again, under [[Rishi Sunak]]; sacked after a *Times* article attacking the police's handling of pro-Palestinian marches | She stood for leader in 2022 and was eliminated in the second round with 27 votes. She did not stand in 2024. ## The record - **Language.** In 2022 she called Channel small-boat crossings an "invasion." Of the [[Rwanda]] deportation flights she said it was her "dream" and her "obsession" to see one take off. - **National Conservatism.** At NatCon London in May 2023, the [[Edmund Burke Foundation]]'s British conference, she said multiculturalism would "end in tears." See [[National Conservatism]] and [[Global New Right Network]]. ## The defection On **26 January 2026** she joined Reform, becoming its eighth MP. Her stated reasons went wider than immigration: "Britain is broken," the Conservatives had "utterly failed," and she had tried "privately, politely, nicely… They ignored me." She called the party's record "managed decline" and "surrender." She followed Nadhim Zahawi (12 January), a former minister who had left the Commons, and [[Robert Jenrick]] (15 January). On 17 February [[Nigel Farage]] made her Reform's spokesperson for education, skills and equalities. Jenrick took Treasury. She still sits for Fareham and Waterlooville, now as a Reform MP. ## See Also - [[Reform UK]] · [[Nigel Farage]] · [[Robert Jenrick]] · [[Kemi Badenoch]] · [[Conservative Party (UK)]] - [[National Conservatism]] · [[Edmund Burke Foundation]] · [[Global New Right Network]] · [[Rwanda]] - [[European Convention on Human Rights]] · [[United Kingdom]]