Posts by Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Woke-Bashing of the Week: Rupert Lowe’s war on woke turned up a notch days before the Makerfield byelection
In the final days before the Makerfield by-election, Rupert Lowe appeared to have settled on a straightforward electoral strategy, denounce anything remotely objectionable as ‘woke.’ The leader of Restore Britain spent the past week launching attacks against the supposed forces of wokeness, deploying the term so liberally that it increasingly seems to mean little more than “something Rupert Lowe disapproves…Read More
“Stop playing politics with Gibraltar”: Fabian Picardo rebukes Suella Braverman over Gibraltar post-Brexit arrangements
A political row erupted this week. Comments by former Conservative cabinet minister Suella Braverman about Gibraltar’s post-Brexit arrangements prompted a heated response from the territory’s chief minister, Fabian Picardo. Braverman, who left the Conservative Party to join Reform UK in January, claimed the Rock is “now British in name only” following a draft UK-EU treaty setting out plans for a…Read More