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Bye bye Braverman, hello Cameron

Pod Save the UK

Pod Save the UK

News, News Commentary, Government

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Nish and Coco jump on for an emergency bonus episode to reflect on a day of high political drama. Rishi Sunak reshuffles his top team, with the axe finally falling on his controversial Home Secretary Suella Braverman. That was followed by an even bigger shock…the appointment of former Prime Minister David Cameron as Foreign Secretary.

Nish and Coco reflect on Cameron’s questionable legacy since leaving politics, and wonder what it means that he’s been appointed to the House of Lords in order to be given the job - can it be right that MP’s won’t have the chance to question him in the Commons? 

Also, beyond the headline moves, Nish wonders what it tells us that we now have our 16th Housing Minister since 2010. Whilst a reshuffle might be exciting for politics watchers, what are the consequences for the rest of us, of ministers being switched between jobs at such an alarming rate? 

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0:00.0

Hello, PodSafe, the UK listeners. This is Nishkumar and I'm here as ever with Koko Kahn.

0:17.0

Hi guys.

0:18.0

We are recording a special mini episode, a mini-sode, if you will, to react to a busy Monday morning

0:28.0

of UK political news. A quick summary of the event is that Suela Bravaman, as many people predicted,

0:37.0

has been sacked as home secretary and replaced by James Clevely, the former foreign secretary.

0:45.0

However, in a move that less people had anticipated, James Clevely's replacement as foreign secretary

0:51.0

is former Prime Minister and Disturber of Pigs, David Cameron, which is obviously a huge surprise

1:01.0

for any number of reasons. Chief amongst them that David Cameron is no longer a member of Parliament.

1:08.0

So, in order for this move to take place, he has been made into a life pier so that he could be appointed as foreign secretary.

1:17.0

A lot of stuff has happened. Koko, what are your initial thoughts on this?

1:23.0

I mean, it's been a whiplash morning, hasn't it?

1:26.0

Being the childless freelancer that I am, I woke up at 9am and saw that Suela Bravaman had been sacked.

1:34.0

I mean, we've spoken about on previous episodes that we think she was probably looking for that,

1:38.0

to a certain extent this is fulfilling her plan. I mean, you saw the pictures of her, never seen someone look so happy to be sacked.

1:44.0

But nonetheless, I thought, oh, give myself this little moment to enjoy it.

1:48.0

Pour me one out for Suela Bravaman, and then next thing you know, just tip that down the sink, Nish,

1:53.0

because no time for toasting. Lord FoodBanks is back. He is back in a prime position.

2:00.0

Yeah, it's been a rollercoaster morning. My first thought was, wow, how good of the king to be so readily available today,

2:10.0

I mean, what were your first instincts about it?

2:14.0

Well, how I feel about all this Koko can actually be summarized by some correspondence we've had in from the listeners.

2:19.0

We put a quick call out on socials to put say the UK listeners about how they were feeling about today's news,

2:25.0

and they have really summarized my feelings.

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