The Return of One-Nation conservatism, or the end of the Conservatives? David Cameron and More: The November 2023 Reshuffle Analysed.
The Return of One-Nation conservatism, or the end of the Conservatives? David Cameron and More: The November 2023 Reshuffle Analysed. 16 th November 2023 From the moment she stepped into office as the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman had been nothing short of controversial [1] . Given the fact that she had been sacked as Home Secretary under Liz Truss for sending a government document from her personal email, on a day she had been included in High Wycombe MP Steve Baker’s ‘BeReal.’, [2] It came off as a politically questionable decision for Rishi Sunak to put her back into the cabinet as Home Secretary, meaning that in his mission to do every job around the cabinet table, Grant Shapps had a whopping six days as Home Secretary on his CV, making him the shortest serving Home Secretary in history. In cabinet, Braverman was the most senior of the ‘populist’ wing of the Conservative Party, with a laser focus on the issue of immigration, describing her dream as being a picture on...