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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Ben Quinn Political correspondent

‘The politics of yesterday’: discontent on Tory right mars Cameron’s return

Kwasi Kwarteng posing beneath a picture of Cameron at his constituency office in 2010
Kwasi Kwarteng beneath a picture of Cameron at his constituency office in 2010. The ex-chancellor has criticised his former leader’s return to cabinet. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

David Cameron symbolises “the politics of yesterday”, the former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has said, as rightwing Conservative discontent overshadowed the former prime minister’s return to cabinet.

“David has to say very early on that he accepts Brexit because otherwise the suspicion is that somehow he’s going to be close to the EU,” Kwarteng told GB News. “He’s got to do a speech or say something to signal that he’s accepted Brexit,” he added, saying that the Conservative party was “in a very difficult place now” because of divisions.

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