Cameron in, Braverman out: Rishi Sunak’s reshuffle
The Story
The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Former prime minister David Cameron is back in the government after Rishi Sunak’s cabinet reshuffle. Pressure had been mounting on Sunak to sack Suella Braverman after a controversial opinion piece in The Times last week. So why is Cameron back? And what do the appointments mean for the Conservatives and their election strategy?
This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today: thetimes.co.uk/storiesofourtimes.
Guest: Steven Swinford, Political Editor, The Times.
Host: Luke Jones.
Get in touch: storiesofourtimes@thetimes.co.uk
Music: 'Fantasy on David Cameron (Cameron's lament in C minor)' courtesy of Thomas Hewitt Jones. Follow Thomas at @thewittjones on Twitter and @thomashewittjonesmusic on Facebook. And you can hear the full track here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhyORjJ00Rk
Clips: Sky News, Times Radio, BBC News, BBC Radio 4, TalkTV.
This podcast was brought to you thanks to subscribers of The Times and The Sunday Times. To enjoy unlimited digital access to all our journalism subscribe here.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | What in the 2010 is happening? |
| 0:05.0 | Car coming up down in street, I'm not quite sure who this might be. |
| 0:12.0 | That's the security detail just opening the door for. |
| 0:18.2 | David Cameron. |
| 0:20.2 | What? |
| 0:21.2 | What? |
| 0:22.2 | I was not expecting that. |
| 0:28.0 | David Cameron back in from the cold, walking up Downing Street to be made Lord Cameron Foreign Secretary. |
| 0:35.0 | My gob has been smacked, my flabber has been gasted, I am a gog. |
| 0:41.0 | David Cameron is the new foreign secretary. This is huge. Just moments after the |
| 0:47.6 | home secretary Sweller Bravenman was handed her ministerial P45. There she is. |
| 0:53.0 | Downin Street, Home Secretary. |
| 0:55.0 | You have to get sacked. |
| 0:57.0 | Breaking news in the last 10 minutes, |
| 0:59.0 | Suella Braverman being sacked. |
| 1:01.0 | Souela didn't have the ministerial experience to be home secretaries. |
| 1:04.8 | I think it was doomed from the start. |
| 1:07.4 | When she is the person saying, the country, the house is on fire and she shouts fire when you say she is the problem you're part of the problem. |
| 1:21.6 | With one in and one out in two of the great officers of state, what does a |
| 1:26.8 | reanimated former Prime Minister in cabinet and the scorned home |
| 1:30.9 | secretary out of it mean for a party in opinion poll palliative care. |
| 1:36.1 | Is this the return of Cameron's big tent politics and will Braverman now be outside it pissing in? |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Times, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Times and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.