Suella Braverman, who was attorney general under Boris Johnson, forwarded government documents to her private email accounts a minimum of 127 times, which could be a likely violation of the ministerial code, following a Freedom of Information campaign by The Times. For security reasons, ministers are forbidden from sending sensitive emails and documents to their private accounts. Braverman was the government’s chief legal advisor and dealt with extremely delicate state matters.
Between 2021 and 2022, Braverman redirected 127 emails towards her private accounts, containing at minimum 290 documents’ records. The contents of the emails are still unknown to the public. Following an 18-month transparency campaign led by The Times and a ruling by a tribunal judge, it was revealed that the AGO did not react to The Times’ Freedom of Information appeal about Braverman’s emails. The AGO initially argued it would be too expensive to examine her ministerial inbox for Braverman’s emails.
In addition to being one of the subjects of a leak inquiry when secret details of the case were sent to the Daily Telegraph and taking the BBC to court in a failed bid to prevent the release of a story about an abusive MI5 agent, Braverman, who later became Home Secretary, was obliged to step down when it surfaced that she had sent an official document to a parliamentary colleague using her personal email. She later admitted to sending official correspondence to her private email account on six additional occasions. Braverman accused the Metropolitan Police of favoring right-wing protests in a newspaper article, and she was fired by then-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
Despite all of this, Braverman remains an influential figure in certain sections of the Conservative Party and serves as an MP. It was revealed that Judge Simon Heald believes that using Outlook would have made the AGO’s request more straightforward and not necessitate the level of difficulty that they had used to obtain private email account information
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