Article 6GB2N Suella Braverman is sunk, and so are the Tories: a party of nihilists, led by a loser | Polly Toynbee

Suella Braverman is sunk, and so are the Tories: a party of nihilists, led by a loser | Polly Toynbee

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Polly Toynbee
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The former home secretary is a dangerous loudmouth, but she speaks for a party that has been marching rightwards for years

The home secretary, queen of the anti-woke, is gone, again. Her grandstanding infuriated many colleagues, yet most of them share the same sinking life-raft of current 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. Suella Braverman's backers, such as the Daily Mail, Telegraph and Sun, which 20 years ago seemed to have a direct line to the beating heart of Tory middle England, are now adrift and floating out to sea with them.

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