Sue-Ellen Cassiana Braverman, is a British politician and barrister who has recently defected from the Conservative Party to Reform UK, becoming the party’s eighth Member of Parliament.
She has served as MP for Fareham and Waterlooville in Hampshire since first being elected in 2015.
Mrs. Braverman rose to national prominence in senior roles in Conservative governments and is best known for her tenure as Home Secretary under Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak.
Early Life and Political Career
Braverman was born on 3 April 1980 in Harrow, north-west London to parents who emigrated from Kenya and Mauritius in the 1960s, giving her a personal family history shaped by immigration. She grew up in Wembley and won a scholarship for school before studying law at Queens’ College, Cambridge. She later completed a master’s degree in European and French law at the Pantheon-Sorbonne in Paris and qualified as a barrister, even passing the New York bar exam.
She entered Parliament in 2015 and quickly aligned with the hardline Eurosceptic wing of the Conservative Party, including serving as chair of the influential European Research Group. She held a range of government posts: an under-secretary in the Department for Exiting the EU, Attorney General for England and Wales, and most prominently Home Secretary from September 2022 until November 2023. Her time in office was marked by outspoken approaches to law and order, immigration, and asylum, and by occasional controversy.
Immigration Record and Political Positions
Throughout her career as a Conservative, Braverman has been a vocal advocate of strict immigration control and reform of asylum policy. As Home Secretary, she championed controversial measures such as plans to Rwanda-style deportations for unlawful migrants and supported policies aimed at reducing net migration to the tens of thousands. Her rhetoric frequently warned of the perceived dangers of uncontrolled immigration and the pressures it placed on public services and social cohesion. She also pushed for the UK to leave the European Convention on Human Rights and to allow stronger sovereign control over borders and deportation policy.
Before joining Reform UK, Braverman had already signalled frustration with her former party, publicly suggesting that the Conservatives had “let down” core supporters by failing to tackle immigration decisively and “oversaw” high tax burdens and cultural trends she opposed. In 2025, she refused to rule out future cooperation with Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, noting shared ground on immigration and issues such as resisting political correctness.
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