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.