UK’s Indian-origin home minister condemns ‘coup’ plot against PM Liz Truss – Times of India

London: UK House Secretary Suella Braverman charged on Tuesday conservative Party Allies plotting a “coup” against Prime Minister Lizzo trussForcing the party leader into a U-turn over the plan to abolish the top rate of income tax for the country’s highest earners.
On the sidelines of the Governing Party’s annual convention in Birmingham, cupboard The minister said Tory lawmakers must unite behind their new leader, who was given a “grave mandate” by the party’s membership at the end of the “exhausting” leadership election in the past few months.
“I am deeply disappointed that members of our own parliamentary party have effectively carried out a coup and in an unprofessional manner undermining the authority of the prime minister,” Braverman told The Daily Telegraph.
“We are one party, Prime Minister has been elected. She’s got a serious mandate to deliver. She talked all summer about tax cuts in a very tedious process. She’s doing what’s been said on the tin. ” Told a podcast for the newspaper.
His defense of the truss came a day after the government was forced to shamefully reverse a proposed cut of the 45 pence income tax rate from next April to quell rebellion from within the party ranks.
Truss said the issue had become a “massive distraction” from his economic development plan.
Braverman expresses disappointment over truss and policy being withdrawn by UK chancellor quasi quartengo amid an ensuing economic storm, but said she “accepted their reasons”.
At a Young Conservatives event at the Birmingham conference on Monday, the minister also pointed to the possibility of cutting the number of foreign students coming to the UK to meet the country’s development needs.
“We should focus more on the students. We’ve had a huge increase in the number of students coming to this country,” Braverman said.
“I think we get to the point where we have to look at some of the courses that people are doing in this country, some institutions, they’re not always of very good quality. I think it’s legitimate to question that. whether it is going to serve our economic objectives, and taking a more sensible, smarter approach to the number of student visas, which I think is in line with our agenda of growth,” she said.
His intervention comes at a time when India has overtaken China in the number of student visas issued to study in higher education institutions in the UK.
as per latest home Office According to the data, around 118,000 Indian students received UK student visas in the year ending June 2022 – an 89 per cent increase over the previous year.
The new minister, who took charge at the Home Office early last month, said she would also consider other visa routes to “put balance” in the country’s immigration system.