SUELLA BRAVERMAN’S resignation must signal the end of the government’s “cruel and ineffective” Rwanda policy, campaigners have demanded. 

The home secretary’s shock departure from the Cabinet after just six weeks in the role has prompted renewed calls for ministers to ditch plans to send asylum-seekers on a one-way ticket to the east African country. 

Her replacement, Grant Shapps is now the third home secretary to take the role since the agreement with Rwanda was announced earlier this year. 

During her short tenure in the post, Ms Braverman doubled down on her predecessor Priti Patel’s anti-refugee policies, even professing it was her “dream and obsession” to fly asylum-seekers to Rwanda. 

She also pledged to ban people arriving to Britain by small boat from applying for asylum and said that she would cut down the numbers of international students and their families. 

Responding to her resignation, Freedom from Torture director of survivor empowerment, Kolbassia Haoussou, who is a former refugee said: “Across the country, torture survivors like me will be relieved that Ms Braverman will not have a chance to realise her cruel dream of flying refugees to Rwanda by Christmas. 

“But every minister in this chaotic government has backed the inhumane anti-refugee policies that Braverman was driving forward.

“It is time for all of us to unite and show the government that we won’t stand for them demonising refugees to distract from their catastrophic mismanagement of the country.”

Care4Calais founder Clare Mosely said: “We are now on the third home secretary since the brutal Rwanda plan was hatched and all it has achieved is to inflict more fear and worry on survivors of war, torture and human rights abuses.

“The government needs to admit their approach is wrong, ditch the cruel and ineffective Rwanda policy and adopt the only alternative that will work — safe passage to other refugees in a similar way to how we have done for Ukrainians.”

Ms Braverman quit on yesterday afternoon over two data breaches.

In her resignation letter to PM Liz Truss, the Tory MP said she had made a “technical infringement” of the rules by sending an official document from a personal email. 

“I have made a mistake; I accept responsibility; I resign,” she said. 

But she also launched an attack on the government on the way out, saying she has serious concerns around the party’s commitment to “stopping illegal migration, particularly the dangerous small-boat crossings.”