Depends what you mean by moderate. I think he may have a desire to get rid of the bots, hence the increased verification. Does he want to limit what people can say? No absolutely not. It'll be full of hate speech before you know it. And yes Trump will be back.
To be fair, some need it, some don't
Lots of sandwiches don't need it tbf. If I make a Prawn Mayo sandwich, I don't use butter but something like ham / ham and cheese definitely needs it
It is being reported on Al Jazeera, the article is dated yesterday and seems to relate to Sunday and the close of the Communist Party Conference. So it predates Putin yesterday
And given the lens of the wider reporting, it doesn't seem to be quite as reported in that tweet either.
Did this come after the Putin interview / statement yesterday?
Yesterday Putin seemed to be rowing back on the nuclear rhetoric by blaming the nuclear talk on crazy Liz Truss whilst on the other hand claiming "The West" was finished and suggesting that he will lead a new world order
If this Xi statement came after Putin's then it really is a huge public slapdown for Putin
If it hadn't been Braverman it would have been the next one out of the traps or the next one and they were probably queuing up. It's no different to Pincher and Johnson. Each time they push and push until the defence just crumbles
Braverman was lucky I suppose that it was her, could easily have been the next contender or the next
Sunak didn't need her onside, he was already way past the 100 threshold when Braverman came out and supported him on the Sunday afternoon, Johnson was close to out of the running at that point already. She tweeted her support at about 3PM on Sunday. Johnson was as good as sunk by then already