The Policy Ask with Karl Williams: “A Norman Tebbit portrait hangs above my Tufton Street desk”
The research director at the Centre for Policy Studies on five-mile runs, the EU, and the miners’ strike.
BySuella Braverman
Suella Braverman is a British Conservative politician. She served as Home Secretary from October 2022 through to November 2023. Braverman was born in 1980 and worked as a barrister from 2005. She was elected MP for Fareham in 2015, and chaired the European Research Group, of Eurosceptic Conservative MPs, from 2017-2018. From 2020 to 2022 she was attorney-general for England and Wales.
The Tory right is at war with reality
The levels of self-delusion over the Rwanda plan suggest the party may be incapable of being led.
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Sunak and Cameron should confront the Tory Jacobins
Anti-institutionalism has gripped the Conservative Party in a dangerous way.
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Why the Tory right keeps losing
Suella Braverman had a good hand but played it badly.
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The Tory right’s divided tribes
Suella Braverman and her allies have a radically different outlook to the party’s free-marketeers.
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Restoration of a loser
David Cameron’s appointment is a bafflingly inept move and a symptom of Tory exhaustion.
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Why Rishi Sunak finally sacked Suella Braverman
After the weekend’s protests, the government decided the former home secretary was hindering the party.
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Rishi Sunak’s Suella Braverman nightmare isn’t over
The sacked home secretary and aspirant Tory leader will be an unrestrained back-bench foe.
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Inside London’s day of rage
The night descended into skirmishes between protesters, the far right and the police. Is this the new normal?
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Suella Braverman’s mask is coming off
The Home Secretary’s comments on Northern Ireland were a big reveal.
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How has Suella Braverman survived so long?
The Home Secretary is that most unfortunate thing: an unpopular populist.
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Why politicians should stay out of policing
The risks and responsibilities of policing protests are ones Suella Braverman should be relieved do not belong to her.
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Will Rishi Sunak sack Suella Braverman?
The Home Secretary’s unofficial leadership bid has left the Prime Minister with no good options.
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How much longer can Rishi Sunak tolerate Suella Braverman?
The Home Secretary is pushing the government’s line on protest beyond acceptable limits.
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Labour should avoid falling into Suella Braverman’s trap
The biggest risk for Keir Starmer is being associated with a position that his opponents could portray as anti-Western and…
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Is Suella Braverman the future of the Conservative Party?
The Home Secretary’s conference speech was well received in Manchester.
The new Conservative Party is being born
Tory conference is not a wake, as many claim. It is a christening.
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Andrew Boff’s removal is a symbol of the Tories’ self-destruction
The London Assembly chair is exactly the sort of liberal, urban voter the Conservative Party has not just lost, but…
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Suella Braverman’s luxury hostilities
The Home Secretary will never solve the problems she so feverishly describes.
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Suella Braverman is daring Rishi Sunak to sack her
The Home Secretary’s attack on the UN’s Refugee Convention is a clear challenge to the Prime Minister’s authority.
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