Suella Braverman

Suella Braverman has been the Conservative MP for Fareham since 2015. Raised in Wembley, both of Braverman’s parents were involved in politics in the Wembley area – her mother as a councillor and her father as a campaigner on local issues. While reading Law at Cambridge University, Braverman served as president of the university’s Conservative Association. Braverman contested her first seat in 2005, losing to Labour’s Keith Vaz. She was elected as MP for Fareham in 2015. Braverman has been a member of both the Education select committee, and the Education, Skills and the Economy sub-committee. Between 2016 and 2017, she chaired the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Financial Education for Young People, and led an enquiry into financial education in schools. Braverman supported the Vote Leave campaign in the 2016 referendum and chaired the pro-Leave European Research Group (ERG) until 2018 when she was replaced by Jacob Rees-Mogg. She was appointed parliamentary private secretary to the ministers of the Treasury before becoming parliamentary under-secretary of state at the Department of Exiting the European Union. In November 2018, along with the then Brexit secretary Dominic Raab, she resigned in protest at Theresa May’s draft deal the day after it was released. She went on to vote against her withdrawal agreement at each vote. In February 2020, Braverman was appointed Attorney General, at her swearing in ceremony, Braverman stated, “it is a privilege to be sworn in as attorney general and a moment I will cherish as the second woman to be appointed to this historic role.”