Hello and welcome to the spike podcast I'm Fraser Myers and joining me on the show as ever we have

Spikes editor Tom Slater. Hello and back with us we have author and trade unionist Paul Embry

Coming up on today's show, the Tories in turmoil, the Supreme Court smackdown of the Rwanda

policy and the double standards of the Metropolitan Police.

So it's been a bit of a week of upheaval for the Conservative Party. Rishi Sunak has sacked Suella Braverman, his hardline home secretary in the reshuffle, and brought in David Cameron, a kind of figure from politics past.

Tom, what have you made of these changes? What do you think it says about the direction of the sort of Sunak government?

I think it's got no direction whatsoever. I mean it does suggest that to the extent that he's got a plan now, it is just to kind of revert back to the kind of factory reset of British politics

pre-2016 I thought Cameron coming back was not only very surreal but also very telling in the

sense that the Tory party is kind of very brief dalliance with populism or

we're just trying to do something a little bit different beyond a quite narrow kind of

new elite consensus is well and truly over and whilst I didn't really hold a can

particular candle for Sweller Braverman I'm sure we'll get into that sake and what that meant

I thought it was telling insofar as a visionless political class which is now thinking that they can just kind of ignore all of those kind of

of the past few years that they can ignore the issues that have long been ignored,

just pushed them to the side once again.

And I just wonder about that David Cameron point in particular,

like who is that supposed to please,

other than the handful of kind of liberal Tories in the comment area

and Michael Hesseltine and a few Tory grandees.

That's the only constituency this could possibly respond to this positively.

You know, even the kind of well-to-do home counties, Tories of old,

who loved him, the kind of younger generation who wanted this kind of

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