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The foreign secretary’s first big role came in 2001

In July 2016, David Cameron signed off as PM with the self-deprecatory quip “I was the future once”. Now Rishi Sunak has brought him back as Foreign Secretary, but does the move signal inspiration or desperation? 

So, what’s the story about Nadine Dorris’s The Plot, subtitled, The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson – just so you know, the subtitle sums up the gist. The former Culture Secretary – and the joke there was on us – gave up her parliamentary seat in August to write this…

Prime minister faces calls to sack home secretary for accusing Met of ‘playing favourites’ over pro-Palestine protests

Home Secretary Suella Braverman is under fire for claiming police were ‘playing favourites’ with demonstrators.

The former minister stretches out a tale of a fiendishly fiendish Tory party conspiracy. Our sketch writer shortens the story

I said: “I found the British still very emotional about Palestine. Why?” And he said: “It’s associated, don’t you think with partisanship with one side or the other. I can’t think of any colony or mandate that was as demanding intellectually and emotionally as Palestine.

The Plot: the Political Assassination of Boris Johnson says a secretive Tory cabal brought down the ex-PM – and Rishi Sunak takes advice from ‘Dr No’

PM and chair Greg Hands under pressure to act – as ‘rot at heart’ of party blamed for years of failure over misconduct claims