British Prime Minister Liz Truss lost another senior member of her government on October 19.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman quit saying in her resignation letter that she had to go after she breached government rules but also that she had concerns over the direction of Truss’ government. “I have made a mistake, I accept responsibility; I resign,” Braverman said in letter to Truss.
She said she had sent an official document from her personal email to a parliamentary colleague, adding that this marked “a technical infringement of the rules” and that it was therefore “right for me to go.”
The second senior minister to leave the government in less than a week, Braverman’s departure heaps yet more pressure on Truss as she fights to stay in power just over six weeks after she entered Downing Street.
Truss fired her Treasury chief, Kwasi Kwarteng, on Friday after the economic package the pair drew up spooked financial markets when it was announced on Sept. 23.
Truss apologized to Parliament and admitted she had made mistakes during her short tenure as the U.K.’s head of government, but insisted that by changing course she had “taken responsibility and made the right decisions in the interest of the country’s economic stability.”
