Suella Braverman was the first Tory MP to kick off her campaign vying to become the next Prime Minister.
But she was also among the first to be booted out of the contest.
The MP for Fareham called for Boris Johnson to resign as the former Prime Minister’s cabinet and Government crumbled before him, yet she refused to quit her ministerial role in protest as he could not “engender the support of the parliamentary party”.
Her failed attempt to lead the nation did not stop her in her tracks, as she swiftly rallied behind Liz Truss insisting she will “stop illegal migration across the Channel” and deliver “ Brexit opportunities”.
The 42-year-old MP only has two years of ministerial experience in her locker but seven years after becoming an MP she has now been warded one of the top four jobs in office.
Ms Braverman was elected in the 2015 general election, after failing to beat Labour's Keith Vaz at the 2005 election for the Leicester East seat.
Her lust for politics apparently came from her mum Uma Fernandes who was politically active from the moment she emigrated to Britain in the 1960s.
Ms Fernandes came to Britain from Mauritius to study social care at university to become a nurse, but she also served on Brent local council, worked as a councillor for 16 years and tried to stand as an MP twice in 2001 and 2003.
She was so determined to stand she persuaded Ms Braverman not to put her name forward in the election, telling her daughter, "let mummy have a chance".
But it was not always easy, the former Attorney General recalled her dad Christie Fernandes losing his job as an insurance broker.
She told The Times: "He was unemployed for several years and his sense of identity was shattered.
"It really broke him as a man. Mum became the backbone of the family, financially and emotionally, and that was a big epiphany for me.
"I saw her working flat out, all hours — “stretched” doesn’t do justice to it.
"It struck me when I was 11 that she was killing herself to pay for my education and that felt a massive responsibility on my shoulders."
The MP for Fareham in Hampshire since 2015 studied law at the University of Cambridge, before gaining a masters at the Sorbonne in Paris.
She also qualified as an attorney in New York and was called to the Bar in Britain in 2005, specialising in public law and judicial review.
As a barrister she has defended the Home Office in immigration cases, the Parole Board in challenges from prisoners, and the Ministry of Defence over injuries sustained in battle.
In a comment piece for the Conservative Home website two years ago, the Brexit supporter said Parliament must “retrace power ceded to the courts”.
Earlier this year, Ms Braverman came under fire for saying she was considering whether to refer the case of four people cleared of tearing down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston to the Court of Appeal.
She has attacked the “rights culture” that began under Tony Blair, and said schools do not have to use trans children’s preferred pronouns.
As a leadership candidate Ms Braverman said “we need to shrink the size of the state” and “get rid of all of this woke rubbish”.
Despite 41% of Universal Credit claimants having a job, she said: “There are too many people in this country who are of working age, who are of good health and who are choosing to rely on benefits, on taxpayers’ money - on your money, my money - to get by.”
