#OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyRishiSunak #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyBorisJohnson #IRLPoliticalStrategistDominicCummings #PleaBetrayalStabbedInTheBack #1953_JuliusCaesar ^[imdb]

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Context #BrandNewsCorpUKTheTimesMattDathan "Nadine Dorries has been branded as dangerous by colleagues after she retweeted an image of Rishi Sunak about to stab Boris Johnson in the back. The culture secretary, a vocal supporter of Liz Truss's leadership campaign, has refused to delete the post, which depicts Johnson as Julius Caesar with his back turned to Sunak, who is wielding a knife. Dominic Cummings, Johnson's aide turned critic, appears to be watching on. The retweet marks her latest attack on Sunak, who she blames for leading the efforts to oust Johnson last month" (1 August 2022). https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tory-leadership-race-mps-rebuke-dangerous-nadine-dorries-for-knife-tweet-rdjqnj9rb #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyLizTruss

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Addendum comparing Johnson to #IRLHistoricalFigureJuliusCaesar implies profound greatness (rather than simply the downfall of yet another prime minister). #MetaphorHagiography

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#BrandNewsCorpUKTheTimesMattDathan "Boris Johnson is planning to replace Gavin Williamson as education secretary with a rising Tory star who is popular in the party for attacking 'woke campaigners,' The Times has been told. Kemi Badenoch, an equalities minister who also serves in Rishi Sunak's Treasury team, is being lined up for the key cabinet post as part of the prime minister's next reshuffle, according to multiple sources. Some Tory MPs and aides are dissatisfied with Williamson's performance after a number of missteps during the pandemic. But in an attempt to avoid being axed from the cabinet entirely, sources say he has been telling colleagues that he 'knows where the bodies are' in a veiled threat to Johnson that he would be a dangerous enemy to have on the back benches ship campaign in 2019 and prior to that he served as government chief whip. One MP said he has been pitching himself as a potential leader of the..." #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyKemiBadenoch #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyBorisJohnson #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyRishiSunak #TauntWokery

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Supplementary #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianAndrewSparrow "There will be full coverage of Kemi Badenoch's victory in the Observer tomorrow. In a post on Bluesky, Sunder Katwala, head of British Future, a thinktank focusing on race and identity issues, says Badenoch's first published interview in a national paper may have been one in the Observer in 2006. She was one of several young Tories the paper spoke to about why the party was becoming cool again under David Cameron. In it she spoke about her support for civil liberties and said she was 'not one of those Conservatives who thinks every problem in the country is down to Blair and the Labour party'. Katwala also says this YouTube video of a speech Badenoch gave at TedX Euston in 2011 gives a good insight into what drew her into politics." https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/nov/02/tory-leadership-election-results-live-kemi-badenoch-robert-jenrick-new-conservative-leader #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartySteveBarclay #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyRobertJenrick #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyJeremyHunt #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyJamesCleverly #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianPippaCrerar #AdvocacyUKBritishFutureSunderKatwala #BrandTechBluesky ^[skeet] #OrgUSTEDTalks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1ulBcFCt-E&t=19s #ToponymEuropeUKEnglandLondonEuston #1985_LiveAid #BehaviourCondescendingPatronising