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Polly Toynbee

Suella Braverman, queen of the anti-woke, is gone, again. The now-former UK home secretary’s grandstanding infuriated many colleagues, yet most share the same sinking life-raft of Tory thinking. “I wouldn’t use her words,” each minister says, but they share her thoughts. Reshuffle from what to what?

The tide is going out on the conservatism they were bred on, the last ripples of Thatcherism that nurtured them leaving them marooned. Braverman’s backers in the UK press, such as the Daily Mail, Telegraph and Sun, which 20 years ago seemed to have a direct line to the beating heart

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