Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has indirectly refused to support Homeland Security Minister Suela Braverman after she was accused of asking civil servants to help her avoid getting a "points" offence on her driver's licence for speeding, The Independent reported.
According to The Independent, Sunak did not say he would ask for an investigation into the 43-year-old Braverman, a measure demanded by the opposition, especially Labour.
While in Hiroshima on the sidelines of the Group of Seven summit, reporters asked Sunak whether he had "full confidence" in his government's secretary of homeland security. He replied that he did not know the full details of what happened and that he had not spoken to her about it.
But a government spokeswoman said: "Indeed, the prime minister has full confidence in Soela Braverman."
Trying to wrap
The Sunday Times said Soila tried to find a way out of her offence that made her not have to attend a course with other motorists herself, nor does she attend an online course whose name and face are visible on camera to other participants.
When civil servants refused to assist the Minister of Public Security in carrying out her plan, she turned to a "political assistant" who tried to persuade the presenter to agree to the minister's proposal.
Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said Soila had tried to use her position to circumvent normal sanctions.
The Sunday Times quoted a former prosecutor as saying that by trying to circumvent the law, Home Secretary Braverman was trying to "convince us that there is a law for Soela, and another law for us".
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In October, Suela Braverman resigned from Liz Truss's cabinet for a "technical violation" of government business rules by sending an official document from her private email.
Braverman is known for her hostile stances against immigrants, although she is of Indian descent, and her parents arrived in Britain via Kenya and Mauritius.
She caused a stir against her last year when she stated that her dream was to see a picture of a flight carrying asylum seekers from Britain to Rwanda, stressing that she would fight for that dream.
After returning to the same position with the government of Sunak, who is of Indian descent, Soila was accused of resuming the policy of deporting refugees to Rwanda.