{"id":42577,"date":"2024-05-05T08:14:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T08:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=42577"},"modified":"2024-05-05T08:14:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T08:14:51","slug":"not-a-good-time-to-remove-sunak-as-tory-leader-braverman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2024\/05\/05\/not-a-good-time-to-remove-sunak-as-tory-leader-braverman\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a good time to remove Sunak as Tory leader &#8211; Braverman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Andy Street<\/strong>, the former West Midlands mayor, and\u00a0Suella<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/suella-braverman\"> <\/a>Braverman, the former home secretary, don\u2019t agree on much, but they are both advising against trying to replace Rishi Sunak before the election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his Sky News interview after his defeat last night, asked what his message would be to Tory MPs tempted to trigger a vote of no confidence in Sunak, Street replied:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I would not advise that \u2026 It\u2019s all about delivery. We don\u2019t need another period where we are debating leadership. [That] could not be clearer in my mind.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And in\u00a0her Sunday Telegraph article<strong>Braverman<\/strong>\u00a0said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let me cut to the chase so no one wastes time overanalysing this: we must not change our leader. Changing leader now won\u2019t work: the time to do so came and went. The hole to dig us out is the PM\u2019s, and it\u2019s time for him to start shovelling.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Braverman\u2019s final sentence does not make sense. The best political advice on this subject comes from Denis Healey, who is credited with the saying: \u201cWhen you are in a hole, stop digging.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What Braverman is trying to say is that it is up to Rishi Sunak to sort out the party\u2019s problems. She also advises how it should be done. (See&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2024\/may\/05\/local-mayor-elections-results-tories-labour-andy-street-rishi-sunak-keir-starmer-latest-politics-news-live-updates?page=with:block-6637221d8f08cb3df581a50b#block-6637221d8f08cb3df581a50b\">7.55am<\/a>.) But she has garbled the metaphor. If you are in a hole, you get out by climbing, not digging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Street, the former West Midlands mayor, and\u00a0Suella Braverman, the former home secretary, don\u2019t agree on much, but they are both advising against trying to replace Rishi Sunak before the election. In his Sky News interview after his defeat last night, asked what his message would be to Tory MPs tempted to trigger a vote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":42578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2152,2512,5262,12635,911,2698,11493,1828,9974,5331,9701,2402,2627,5266,11307,9271,11325,8284,8302,255,5091,6348,6876,10415,594],"class_list":["post-42577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-chase","tag-conservatives","tag-cut","tag-delivery","tag-election","tag-home-secretary","tag-interview","tag-labour","tag-leadership","tag-mayor","tag-midlands","tag-mps","tag-pm","tag-rishi-sunak","tag-sentence","tag-sky","tag-street","tag-suella-braverman","tag-sunak","tag-tory","tag-tory-leader","tag-us","tag-vote-of-no-confidence","tag-work","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42579,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42577\/revisions\/42579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}