Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email A Tory minister attempted to brush off The Independent’s revelation that Margaret Thatcher’s favourite ad agency has switched its backing to Labour with an attack on the “cruel” party. Armed forces minister James […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Rishi Sunak has sacked Suella Braverman as home secretary after she accused Metropolitan Police chiefs of bias in their handling of the pro-Palestine protests. Her sacking was welcomed by Tory moderates who had […] More
Following the announcement of former home secretary Suella Braverman’s sacking on Monday (13 November), The Independent has taken a long at her most controversial moments in government.From her unauthorised article criticising the way pro-Palestinian protests had been policed, to her comments that for many “living in a tent” had become a “lifestyle choice”, Ms Braverman has hit the headlines on many occasions.Just last month, she told Sky News: “Trans women have no place in women’s wards or indeed any safe space relating to biologial women.”On 3 October, she issued an “apology to all dogs” after she was pictured standing on a dog at a Tory Party conference. More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Rishi Sunak has sacked divisive home secretary Suella Braverman after a row over the pro-Palestine march this weekend turned nasty. Ms Braverman was shown the door as part of a wider reshuffle on […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Former Conservative prime minister David Cameron has been named foreign secretary in a shock appointment as part of the Rishi Sunak’s cabinet reshuffle. The stunning move will see the Tory grandee – who […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email New foreign secretary David Cameron has previously called Gaza “a prison camp” and has criticised Israel’s ”illegal” settlements in Palestinian territory. On a visit to Turkey in 2010 the former Conservative prime minister […] More
Danny Dyer’s expletive-laden criticism of David Cameron, accusing him of having his “trotters up” in France after Brexit, has resurfaced following the announcement that the former prime minister was appointed as foreign secretary in Rishi Sunak’s Cabinet reshuffle on Monday, 13 November.The actor appeared Good Morning Britain in 2018, launching into a rant about Mr Cameron, who stepped down from frontline politics following the vote.“I haven’t got a clue what f****** Brexit is,” Dyer said.“What’s happened to that t*** David Cameron who called it on? He’s in Nice with his trotters up. He should be held accountable for it.” More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Suella Braverman has broken her silence after being dramatically fired as home secretary following days of mounting pressure. The former top minister has said it had been the “greatest privilege of my life […] More
