#LondonCalling: Why did Sunak discard Braverman for saying what Britain believes about immigration and law enforcement? @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 22 November 2023
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#LondonCalling: Why did Sunak discard Braverman for saying what Britain believes about immigration and law enforcement? @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/13/uk/suella-braverman-leaves-government-rishi-sunak-gbr-intl/index.html
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| 0:00.0 | Oh great! The Guardian is now delivering newspapers all over the UK to places like Manchester, Edinburgh and many more. |
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| 0:22.0 | offer ends December 3rd, 2023. Open to UK and N.I. Guardian. I'm John Basser with my colleague Joseph Sternberg. |
| 0:37.0 | He's a member of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:39.5 | He's in London and he writes political economics. |
| 0:42.4 | He also helps me to understand the British |
| 0:46.4 | politics it's similar but it's not the same as US politics especially when it comes to public opinion there are two parties and they as over policies and the Tories have been in power for many years many years I think |
| 1:05.2 | 13 there's an election next year called unless there's one called earlier and in |
| 1:10.5 | the course of the years of policymaking, there are changes in the cabinet. |
| 1:15.6 | They seem to be routine. |
| 1:17.3 | You don't take it personally. |
| 1:18.3 | You're in the cabinet, you're out of the cabinet. |
| 1:20.2 | But recently, the Home Secretary Suella Braverman was sacked by Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, |
| 1:27.0 | for unclear reasons. |
| 1:28.3 | Because Joe held me with this, Suella Braverman said, immigration is a problem, we must deal with it. Suella Braverman said, immigration is a problem we must deal with it. |
| 1:33.0 | So well a brave woman said, anti-Semitism is a problem we must deal with it. |
| 1:37.3 | Swella brave woman said, the Metropolitan Police are choosing sides and protecting |
| 1:41.9 | the lawbreakers who are marching in the hundreds of thousands |
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