Sunak’s reshuffle: refresh or rewind?

Coffee House Shots

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🗓️ 13 November 2023

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Summary

It’s reshuffle day in Westminster. Suella Braverman is out as Home Secretary, replaced by James Cleverly, with former prime minister David Cameron making a shock return to parliament in the vacant Foreign Secretary slot. It’s the first time since 1974 that a former PM has been appointed to the cabinet. Can Rishi Sunak really still claim to be the candidate to end the ‘thirty year status quo’? Will he regret bringing Cameron back?

James Heale speaks to Katy Balls and Fraser Nelson.

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0:14.0	Hello and welcome to coffee house shots.
0:19.0	I'm James Hill and I'm joined today by Katie Balls and Frasin
0:22.0	Now it's reshuffle day in Westminster and the two big And I'm joined today by Katie Balls and Fraser Nussen.
0:22.8	Now it's reshuffle day in Westminster and the two big moves
0:25.3	so far this morning.
0:26.4	Alex Zoelerberovman is out as Home Secretary,
0:28.8	replaced by James Cleverley.
0:30.2	And James Cleverley, who departs as Foreign Secretary,
0:32.2	has been replaced in a shop move by David Cameron.
0:34.8	Katie talk us through this.
0:36.3	Yeah it's quite the day and we're not even at midday yet so I feel it's probably one of those days
0:40.8	where you might get more than one coffee has shots
0:43.2	landing. So where to start I think it had become quite clear from the end of
0:49.8	last week that Sierra Brabham's position was not safe but Ritchie Nick was not
0:53.8	planning to move her alone in the sense they wanted to combine it as part of a
0:59.2	reshuffle and therefore almost you know a flat few days at the end of the week
1:04.0	speculation again mounting and I think this is an attempt by Rishi's United
1:07.1	today to try and get back on the front foot in what effectively is a bit of a
1:11.2	no-win situation in terms of where he got to of his home secretary.
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