When Suella Braverman wrote a newspaper article last week calling into question police impartiality and calling pro-Palestinian demonstrations “hate marches”, there were calls for her to be sacked. Those calls were answered yesterday as Rishi Sunak ejected her from his cabinet. But his next move took Westminster completely by surprise.
As the Guardian’s political editor Pippa Crerar tells Michael Safi, the appointment of former prime minister David Cameron throws up a number of immediate questions and conundrums. Only last month, Sunak had railed against “30 years of status quo” and political “quick fixes”, seemingly embodied by Cameron.
But, as Crerar explains, Sunak needs all the help he can get at the moment. And having an experienced statesman as foreign secretary could free him up to focus on the domestic issues on which the next election will be decided.
Meanwhile, Suella Braverman returns to the backbenches to plot her next steps, which many suppose to be a heavily culture war flavoured bid to be the party’s next leader.
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