Suella Braverman was the pantomime villain, but don't expect the story to change now she's gone
Owen Jones in The Guardian
Suella Braverman's persona as a "pantomime villain", says Owen Jones in The Guardian, makes her ousting as home secretary "all the more satisfying". But her downfall is not a "symbol of [Rishi] Sunak's newfound moderation", Jones adds. Although Braverman has "exited the stage", she "is but a crude distillation of the poison that courses through the Tory party's veins".
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