India’s external affairs minister arrived in London expecting to meet his opposite number James Cleverly, only to find himself shaking hands with David Cameron, an ex-prime minister abruptly returned to the fray at the Foreign Office in the great Rishi restitution.
Sunak did however pre-empt the Braverman eruption. A week ago he approached the man who had supported his breakthrough as an ambitious arrival in the 2015 intake. Sunak had a wider reshuffle (and the dropping of Braverman) in mind.
