In what was widely considered appeasement of the right of the Conservative Party (i.e. the actually conservative bit), Rishi Sunak shored up his cabinet in 2022 by reinstating Suella Braverman as home secretary. It is not without irony therefore that he proceeded to sack her earlier this month for her unexpected conservatism; nor was it likely […]
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The big story this week was the implosion at Tory HQ, as Rishi Sunak searched for a means to simultaneously sack Suella Braverman for flagrant conservatism, and continue passing the Tories off as ‘right-wing’. Both wings of the party (centrist and far-left) put their (dick)heads together, and mysteriously came up with the answer ‘David Cameron’.
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(Photograph: David Woolfall, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) In the aftermath of her Wednesday piece in The Times (‘Police must be even-handed with protests’), there’s every likelihood that Suella Braverman’s stint as Home Secretary could be coming to an end. As Rishi Sunak deliberates on whether to sack her, it’s important to note
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