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Rishi Sunak facing right-wing backlash for sacking Suella Braverman and appointing David Cameron

www.independent.co.uk Rishi Sunak facing right-wing backlash for sacking Suella and appointing Cameron

PM ousted Ms Braverman as home secretary after days of mounting pressure but Tories warn Cameron’s return could push voters away

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Just when you thought the Tory Implosion couldn't get any better.

At this rate they might have to just admit defeat by Christmas and let some grown-ups run the country for a change.

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yeah i can see what's happened here, rishi has been forced to say "fuck it" and align with one of the factions.

if you have a choice of a faction to align with, you should pick the one that is closer to the center of the overton window, to maximize future vote gain under FPTP.

if suella didn't force her own sacking to then try and force a no-confidence vote to seize leadership (or otherwise secure cabinet control for the NatC faction), then... why did she write that opinion piece otherwise? she didn't have to write it.

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With a bit of luck this will split the party, hard right to reform, rest to stay

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Which MP's identify as the right wing of the Conservative party?

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- https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jan/08/what-are-the-different-conservative-factions
  
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  They need to do an update to that page. CRG seems outdated now that COVID doesn't exist! Hah
  
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- They have two right wings.. This is why they are flying round in circles..
  
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- When you see a vote for something horrific like "lock up all the homeless people in a concentration camp" it's all the ones that vote yes.
  
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Put up or shut time for Braverman. If she cannot make an impact now then her time is gone. It looks very much like a pivotal point for the Tories. Are they going to go full right, or remove the power of those that have poisoned all the narrative that emanates from the Tories.

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- She won't become the next Tory leader. She's fifth popular amongst ordinary Tory party members, behind Mourdant, Cleverly, Mercer and Badenoch and she has approval rating according to IPSOS of 16% and YouGov of 15%. I doubt she even has enough support to get 54 letters to the 1922 committee.
  
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  The Tories are down to 350 sitting MPs. This means that the 15% threshold is now 53 not 54 anymore. Loose another 4 MPs and that figure is only 52 letters required.
  
  There has reputedly been 20 letters handed in for weeks now. That would leave 33 additional letters, if the rumours are true. Unfortunately those 20 letters will be from people who already support Braverman's narrative. I would love to see a VONC thrown into the mix. Cameron would be over moon also I guess. It would deflect from the crap that is heading in his direction this week. Greensill is rearing its ugly head for him, and rightly so.
  
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  That was when they had a chance to elect Truss. Braverman is lining herself up to be the candidate of the right next time and, if she manages it, and the party doesn't manage to bring about another coronation a la Sunak, she will win.
  
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  5th popular of the half dozen or so that ran for leadership, much lower in the whole party.
  
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- Are they going to go full right
  
  I'm so confused as to what they've been doing so far... 🤔
  
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Braverman was a cartoon, all her incendiary failed Rwanda, Homeless shit was all a setup to get Cameron back onside

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- I found out from the rest is politics podcast that she’s a Buddhist, Erasmus scholar and previously worked alongside Cherie Blair on the Africa Justice Foundation.
  
  It just seems like such a paradox, and maybe it is just a ploy to appeal to the far right lunatics in the Conservative Party in order to become leader one day.
  
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Appoint Corbyn. It's the only way they've yet to impugn his reputation.

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This is the best summary I could come up with:

Rishi Sunak is facing a backlash from right-wing Tory MPs with a warning that Suella Braverman‘s sacking as part of a shock cabinet reshuffle is a mistake.

The PM ousted the home secretary after days of mounting pressure over her claim of police bias in favour of pro-Palestinian protesters, her attack on “hate marches” and description of homelessness as a “lifestyle choice”.

Mr Sunak faced weeks of warnings that sacking Ms Braverman – a key figure on the right of the party – would spark a rebellion of backbench MPs.

However, senior Tory MP Stephen Hammond has said the right-wingers angry about Ms Braverman’s sacking don’t have the numbers to oust Mr Sunak, despite claims more than 50 are ready to send no-confidence letters in the PM.

“All too often the right has shown itself to be well organised and noisy so that the impact is somewhat larger than the reality of their numbers,” Mr Hammond – who said the sacking of Ms Braverman was “completely correct” - told The Independent.

Pat McFadden MP, Labour’s national campaign coordinator, said: “A few weeks ago, Rishi Sunak said David Cameron was part of a failed status quo, now he’s bringing him back as his life raft.

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