David Cameron In, Suella Braverman Out
Radical with Amol Rajan
BBC
4.5 • 919 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
This morning on the Today programme the news of the sacking Suella Braverman broke and we heard the surprise announcement that former Prime Minister David Cameron would be the Foreign Secretary.
In this emergency episode of The Today Podcast Amol and Nick discuss Rishi Sunak’s reshuffle.
Former Education Secretary Baroness Nicky Morgan, former Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers MP and former Deputy Prime Minister Lord Heseltine are all on hand to give their take on where this leaves the Conservative Party.
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The Today Podcast is hosted by Amol Rajan and Nick Robinson, both presenters of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, the UK’s most influential radio news programme. Amol was the BBC’s media editor for six years and is the former editor of the Independent, he’s also the current presenter of University Challenge. Nick has presented the Today programme since 2015, he was the BBC’s political editor for ten years before that and also previously worked as ITV’s political editor.
The producers are Tom Smithard and Rufus Gray. The editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Louisa Lewis. The executive producer is Owenna Griffiths. Studio direction from Adrian Bhargava.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | David Cameron is back as Foreign Secretary. |
| 0:07.2 | Suella Brivellivan is sacked as Home Secretary. |
| 0:10.3 | This is an emergency today podcast. |
| 0:13.3 | Let's do it. |
| 0:13.8 | We're... It's a mole in a makeshift today podcast studio, not our usual one, because this is our first emergency podcast. |
| 0:32.6 | Welcome. |
| 0:33.2 | And it's Nick. |
| 0:34.1 | You've stayed here. |
| 0:34.9 | I ran in from home. |
| 0:36.9 | Once I'd seen the news and not been able to take my ear off it since it was broken on the today program. That Suella Bravman was out. |
| 0:47.5 | Come on then, let's have your instinctive feeling. |
| 0:48.8 | I mean, I've got so much I want to say. |
| 0:51.5 | But Cameron, you know him, you followed him, you reported on him for years. |
| 0:52.1 | This is a shock. |
| 0:53.1 | Oh, God, it's a shock. |
| 0:53.9 | I mean, it's extraordinary. |
| 0:56.3 | In one sense, it's a shot, but not a surprise. |
| 0:59.6 | Cameron said some years ago that he was interested in coming back as foreign secretary. Now, the reason he would be interested in doing |
| 1:03.1 | it is obvious. You know, his reputation has been trashed and he's not had much to do since he was |
| 1:08.1 | in government. He's been bored outside government. So for him it's a chance |
| 1:11.9 | to do a proper substantive job and to get a bit of his reputation back. For Rishi Sunak, it gives him |
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