Braverman's Revenge

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Suella Braverman launches a full-scale attack on her old boss Rishi Sunak, a day after he sacked her as home secretary. In a blistering letter to the prime minister, she said he had repeatedly failed on key policies and broken pledges over immigration. Adam and Chris are joined by former BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw and former special advisor at the home office Salma Shah to discuss what it all means. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Today's Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Chris Gray with Sam McLaren. The technical producer was Rohan Madison. The senior news editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello, in all the kerfuffle about David Cameron coming back
0:08.6	as Foreign Secretary and Lord Cameron,
0:11.3	one of the things that went sort of only semi-remarked upon was that
0:15.0	Suella Braverman had been fired as Home Secretary and that's why it was all happening.
0:20.0	But one of the other things that emerged from all of that was that
0:23.0	Suella Braverman and Ritchie Sunac did not have the traditional
0:26.4	exchange of letters between a prime minister and an outgoing cabinet
0:31.0	minister. Everyone thought, oh, that's because things are really frosty between them.
0:35.2	Little did we realize how frosty, because about half past four on Tuesday afternoon,
0:40.9	Sweller Braverman, the former Home Secretary, published the three-page
0:45.0	letter that she had sent the Prime Minister.
0:49.0	And what word do you want to use?
0:51.0	Bombshell!
0:52.0	Shocker! Whoa! Wowsers! It's it's all of those.
0:57.3	So we'll focus on that and tell you what it means and read between the lines on this episode of
1:01.2	Newscast.
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1:04.2	Why can't people buy a house?
1:06.0	Look at their wages.
1:07.2	Do you have any questions on things that are not related to math?
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