SUELLA Braverman’s fate as Home Secretary is still up in the air as a top Cabinet Minister refused to say she was safe in her job.
No10 are still mulling a reshuffle this week with senior Tory sources saying its now 60/40 that the PM will rejig his top team.
Downing Street did not rule out a reshuffle this week and Ministers pointed to a noticeably empty Government schedule for tomorrow.
Quizzed on whether Mrs Braverman would still be in her job, Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said “a week is a long time in politics”.
He added the PM “will decide that in his own time” on any changes to the Cabinet.
Plans for a reshuffle are complicated by the Supreme Court, which will rule on the legality of the Government’s flagship Rwanda scheme on Wednesday — a policy championed by Mrs Braverman.
The Home Secretary came out swinging after growing calls for her to quit amid claims her fiery language criticising cops stirred up trouble on Armistice Day.
The Labour Mayor of London, Scottish First Minister and a string of Labour MPs have called for her to be sacked after EDL thugs battered cops on Saturday.
Labour’s shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said Mrs Braverman cannot stay in her job.
She blamed the tensions in London on Mrs Braverman’s “appalling and unprecedented attack” on the Metropolitan Police’s operational independence and impartiality.
But supporters of the Home Secretary said she had been vindicated in warning against two-tier policing at the weekend and was proven right that clashes were coming.
And Mr Shapps rejected the idea Mrs Braverman stirred up trouble.
He told the BBC: “Those people who were going to come and try to disrupt this weekend had already said they were going to do it.”
