He has spent the intervening years writing his memoirs, making money through lobbying, and watching the reality of Brexit become clear. This was a shock to almost everyone: He’d left Parliament in 2016 after losing the Brexit referendum, and now-at the same time as joining Sunak’s government-will become Lord Cameron, sitting in the (unelected) House of Lords rather than the (elected) House of Commons.

Even if the online right holds up San Francisco and Los Angeles as totems of progressive failure, to most Britons those cities are “the one with the trams” and “the one where all the famous people live.” Polling showed that Braverman’s rhetoric was unpopular with the electorate, and so was she.Īs she was exiled from government, the Conservative former Prime Minister David Cameron returned as foreign secretary. But her comments on homelessness were widely seen as cruel, as well as incomprehensible to many of the party’s target voters. Her resignation letter accused Sunak of pandering to “polite opinion” and having “no appetite for doing what is necessary.” Braverman was one of the standard-bearers of the Tory right: tough on immigration, tough on welfare, and a true-blue Brexiteer. Yesterday, she was fired from her post by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, in a cabinet reshuffle indicating his Conservative Party’s attempt to calibrate exactly how much culture-warring British voters can tolerate.

Britain was blighted, she said on X, by aggressive panhandlers and vagrants, “many of them from abroad, living on the streets as a lifestyle choice.” Without harsh measures, “British cities will go the way of places in the US like San Francisco and Los Angeles.” She followed up the comments a few days later by suggesting that all of the estimated 300,000 people protesting in London for a cease-fire in Gaza were “hate marchers.” On November 4, Britain’s home secretary endorsed the idea of banning homelessness charities from giving out tents to people sleeping on sidewalks.

In the end, Suella Braverman was brought down by some tents.

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