Suella Braverman sacked as UK home secretary

UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman has been sacked by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during a cabinet reshuffle on Monday. 

It follows an article she wrote last week in The Times about pro-Palestinian protests which had not been approved by Downing Street, and a weekend of violence by far-right groups who clashed with police in central London, which critics say was stirred up by Braverman's comments against police and marchers. 

In the article, Braverman criticised the police's handling of the marches, accusing them of "double standards" in comparison with policing at right-wing demonstrations. 

She called the pro-Palestine protesters "hate marchers" and compared them to sectarian groups in Northern Ireland - comments which caused outrage across the UK.