Rishi Sunak begins shake-up of his ministerial team after sacking Suella Braverman
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Rishi Sunak has appointed James Cleverly as UK home secretary in a move supposed to repair relationships with senior police officers and reassure rightwing Tory MPs after the tumultuous tenure of Suella Braverman.
The MP for Braintree, who backed Liz Truss to become prime minister, is expected to hold urgent talks with the Metropolitan police commissioner, Mark Rowley, after Braverman’s claims that the police were biased, Whitehall sources said.
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