What was claimed
The last three home secretaries are Suella Braverman, David Lammy and Shabana Mahmood.
Our verdict
This isn’t correct. Mr Lammy has never been home secretary, and Ms Braverman is not one of the last three home secretaries.
Viral list of ‘last three home secretaries’ is incorrect
Posts shared widely online incorrectly identify the “last 3 Home Secretaries”.
They include a picture of Shabana Mahmood, who is the current home secretary, but also images of the Conservative MP Suella Braverman as well as deputy prime minister and justice secretary David Lammy. One post making this claim has over 1,700 shares on X (formerly Twitter).
Contrary to the posts, Mr Lammy has never served as home secretary in any government. He was foreign secretary between July 2024 and September 2025.
And while Ms Braverman did serve as home secretary for a short period in 2022 under Liz Truss, and then again under Rishi Sunak from October 2022 to November 2023, she was not one of the last three people to hold the role.
Ms Mahmood was preceded as home secretary by Yvette Cooper MP, who replaced James Cleverly MP following the 2024 general election.
A correct list of the last three home secretaries would therefore be Ms Mahmood, Ms Cooper and Mr Cleverly.
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This article is part of our work fact checking potentially false pictures, videos and stories on Facebook. You can read more about this—and find out how to report Facebook content—here. For the purposes of that scheme, we’ve rated this claim as partly false because Suella Braverman was not one of the last three home secretaries, and David Lammy has never served as home secretary.