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The secretary of state for the Home Department, more commonly known as the home secretary, is a senior minister of the Crown in the Government of the United Kingdom and the head of the Home Office. [3] The position is a Great Office of State, making the home
The Policing Protocol Order 2011 sets out the roles and responsibilities of different bodies. [5] For the home secretary, it states: The Home Secretary is ultimately accountable to Parliament and charged with ensuring the maintenance of the Queen's Peace within all force areas, safeguarding the public and protecting our national borders and security.
The Cabinet minister responsible for the department is the home secretary, [3] a post considered one of the Great Offices of State; it has been held by Yvette Cooper since July 2024. The Home Office is managed from day to day by a civil servant, the permanent under-secretary of state of the Home Office.
James Cleverly has been made home secretary by prime minister Rishi Sunak following Suella Braverman’s sacking.. The former foreign secretary has one day to read up on his brief before he has to ...
The Home Secretary has pledged to “restore order” to the migration system as the number of migrants arriving in the UK after crossing the Channel topped 20,000 since Sir Keir Starmer became ...
The Great Offices of State are senior offices in the UK government. They are the Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Foreign Secretary and the Home Secretary [1] [2] [3] or, alternatively, three of those offices excluding the prime minister. [4] [5]
New Home Secretary Suella Braverman has left Downing Street following her appointment to Liz Truss’s Cabinet, wishing journalists a good evening as she departed Number 10. 7.34pm
On 12 May 2010, when Theresa May was appointed home secretary and minister for women and equality by Prime Minister David Cameron as part of his first Cabinet, she became the fourth woman to hold one of the British Great Offices of State, after (in order of seniority) Margaret Thatcher (prime minister), Margaret Beckett (foreign secretary) and Jacqui Smith (home secretary). [1]