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Suella Braverman’s immigration speech ruffles feathers

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How should Rishi Sunak govern? Unfortunately for the Prime Minister, his MPs have plenty of views on the matter at the moment – and many are keen to air them publicly. In the face of disappointing local election results, a couple of hundred members of the pro-Boris vehicle the Conservative Democratic Organisation gathered in Bournemouth over the weekend (James Heale writes about the event here) where its members reminisced about the Johnson days and critiqued Sunak. Tonight Sunak is due to host a coronation garden party for all MPs, but ahead of that charm offensive a number of ministers and MPs are heading to the Emmanuel Centre in Westminster for the National Conservatism conference.

Ministers are bracing for a record increase in net migration figures this month which could come close to one million

The event is a project of the Edmund Burke Foundation, a public affairs institute with the stated aim of ‘strengthening the principles of national conservatism in Western and other democratic countries’.

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