November 2023 British cabinet reshuffle
Second cabinet reshuffle undertaken by UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak
British prime minister Rishi Sunak carried out the second cabinet reshuffle of his premiership on 13 November 2023. Suella Braverman was replaced as Home Secretary by James Cleverly. Cleverly was replaced as Foreign Secretary by the former Prime Minister David Cameron, who was made a life peer as Baron Cameron of Chipping Norton.
Changes
Amid rising tensions the previous week, Sunak sacked Suella Braverman from her position as Home Secretary on 13 November 2023. She had previously been sacked from the same position by Sunak's predecessor Liz Truss in October 2022. According to The Guardian, the trigger for her sacking was an article she wrote and published in The Times on 8 November 2023, which included a statement that there was "a perception that senior police officers play favourites when it comes to protesters" and were tougher on rightwing extremists than pro-Palestinian "mobs". The Guardian reported that the prime minister's office had asked for changes to be made to the article, but not all were implemented. She was replaced by the Foreign Secretary James Cleverly.
With the foreign secretary's office falling vacant, party grandee Lord Hague reportedly negotiated a deal between Sunak and the former prime minister David Cameron that saw Cameron appointed Foreign Secretary. Since Cameron had resigned from parliament on 12 September 2016, it was announced on the morning of the reshuffle that he would be appointed to a life peerage.
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