…and david cameron* has been brought back as foreign secretary, using some
sneaky shenanigans (as he is not an mp).
Bastards.
*the git that started this shit show with his hasty complacent brexit referendum.
Ninjad. 
Sunak a couple of weeks ago: “I am the leader of change, after many long years of failure and limited vision!”
Sunak today: “Uh, yeah, actually, never mind about that.”
What a squishy, squishy little man.
The very soft “What the hell?!” by someone in the background when he is first seen!
I know! I think whoever it was deserves a medal for restricting themselves to “What the hell” because my reaction was a little stronger.
And Camerob has to go into the Lords to do it. If memory serves, that’s 60 years since the last Foreign Secretary in the Lords. Talk about a caretaker/placeholder. And it’s not as though he’d be that well buttressed by the junior ministers.
Yup. Cameron was apparently particularly irked by the “30 years of failed consensus” stuff. (But he can put it behind him.)
It’s going great, folks.
Any guesses on what a backbench Braverman will get up to?
ETA: oh, hey, I’ve got a little cake! It’s Cake Day!
I didn’t even know that kind of simultaneously-elevate-and-appoint move was possible.
Lord Carrington under Thatcher 1979-1982.
Were you ambushed by cake?
It was either that or death.
Spend more time with her dalmatians?
I guess it says something about the current state of the parliamentary Conservative Party when Sunak can’t find a member who either wants the job of Foreign Secretary or is competent/loyal enough to do it. I guess there wasn’t enough time to air drop Cameron into a safe commons seat. And likely no safe seats either, particularly for such a move.
Guess it’s better for them to get this stuff out of the way now and not closer to a general ejection (that’s a typo, but I quite liked it). Surely the next 12 months will be just plain sailing….
OB
Wait for Wefnes
Not unknown. From this briefing note:
The majority of ministers in the House of Lords have been, and continue to be, selected from existing members of the House. However, there have been examples of individuals given peerages to serve as ministers. In the current government, Lord Bellamy and Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park are examples of such ministers.
As for Braverman, wait and see what happens on Wednesday when the Supreme Court announces its ruling on the Rwanda policy. Will it mean Braverman launching an all-out campaign to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights - and where would that put Sunak and Cameron?
If loyalty to Sunak is one of the prime qualifications, that pretty well squeezes out everyone with the gravitas to hack the job.
Of course whenever the PM (of either party) is a weakling obviously in over their head, that problem obtains for every major cabinet position. The only exception being somebody elevating to cabinet who fancies their own chance at PM next, and has the 'nads (internally or externally mounted) to push, and push hard, their own agenda irrespective of the PM’s.
Which sounds like exactly what Braverman was up to when she overplayed her hand. Next!
Depends on what she was hoping to achieve. As it is, she’s positioning for leadership of the Opposition after the inevitable (she has one of the safest seats).
Wow. I’m getting a bit dizzy! Here’s CNN’s coverage:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/13/uk/suella-braverman-leaves-government-rishi-sunak-gbr-intl/index.html
The truth is that however ridiculous it might seem to appoint Cameron, he’s a known quantity and the alternative would be someone quite untried. Why would you go for a pig in a poke when you could have a guy who no no come on I should be better than this.
Heh. When I started that sentence I thought “oh lord are you sure you want to use that turn of phrase in association with this man” and then the rest of the sentence happened.
You should be better than this, but then so should the Conservative Party.
And yet here we are.