Suella Braverman has been sacked.

It comes after the Home Secretary defied the Prime Minister and launched a furious rant on the policing of Pro-Palestine March. Number 10 sources confirmed Rishi Sunak asked her to leave the government on Monday.

Ms Braverman was accused of inspiring ugly clashes between police and "counter demonstrators" at the Cenotaph. A string of cabinet colleagues distanced themselves from her comments as critics demanded her sacking.

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This morning a top Tory conceded Ms Braverman shouldered some of the blame for the violence. Armed Forces Minister James Heappey said it would be wrong to say the ugly scenes were "entirely" a consequence of what she said, reports the Mirror.

Ms Braverman also attracted criticism for an an unauthorised article for Thursday’s Times, in which she claimed 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”.

This was blamed by police and Labour for helping inflame tensions which saw far right groups battle police near the Cenotaph on Saturday.

Mr Heappey told Times Radio: "I wouldn't have used some of the words that the home secretary used in her article. But I also think that it would be incorrect to say that those protests, the counter-protests, were entirely a consequence of what she wrote."

The government admitted Ms Braverman's article had not been cleared by Downing Street. In the incendiary piece, the former Home Secretary added tension around the march on - Armistice Day - by pro-Palestinian groups and the risk of counter-protests.

The PM's official spokesman told reporters on Thursday number 10 was looking at the incident, and said: "It was not agreed by No10 - it was not cleared by No10".

A string of Cabinet ministers had refused to endorse Ms Braverman's comments with the Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt saying: "The words that she used are not words that I myself would have used".

Boris Johnson's former director of communications Guto Harri also told Times Radio that Ms Braverman seemed to be "behaving as if she wants to be sacked on this occasion".

He said: "This is not something that she was bounced into saying. This was not something that was dropped in the heat of the moment. She wasn't trapped. This was written in cold blood, you know, bounce to and from number ten. And I used to oversee that process of approval. And it will have gone under the noses of a number of people and gone back and all that. And then it sent in cold blood in plenty of time to be, you know, edited and put on the page with the time. So she knew exactly what she was doing."

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