Suella Braverman has been referred to a financial watchdog over concerns of a potential breach of insider trading laws.

The Home Secretary, reappointed in the role following the appointment of Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister, previously admitted to sending government emails to her personal phone.

Without authorisation, Ms Braverman sent draft immigration policy to Tory backbencher Sir John Hayes from a personal email address, inadvertently also sending it to a staff member of another Conservative MP.

Shadow city minister Tulip Siddiq has now asked the Financial Conduct Authority to investigate the leaking of information that led to Ms Braverman’s resignation.

The Labour politician questioned whether the minister sharing ‘highly sensitive’ information regarding ‘growth visas’ could have been a breach under market abuse regulation.

Ms Siddiq added that the information could have affected Office for Budget Responsibility forecasts, saying ‘policy changes can constitute inside information’.

‘I believe this is a case to answer,’ she wrote.

A spokesman for Ms Braverman, who has apologised for her ‘errors of judgment’, declined to comment.

When she resigned as Home Secretary on October 19, the move was seen as the final tipping point in Truss’ premiership.

But Ms Braverman was controversially handed the role back less than a week later when Mr Sunak was handed the keys to No 10.

The ex-Chancellor has been under sustained pressure over the decision in the time since.

Former Brexit Secretary Lord Frost tonight defended Home Secretary Suella Braverman against an ‘almost obsessional pursuit’.

He said: ‘We have seen over the last couple of days what seems to me to be an almost obsessional pursuit of the Home Secretary who is dealing with a series of extremely difficult substantive problems.

‘A pursuit on the basis of leaks, anonymous briefings, the usual oversensitivity about words.’

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