Friday, 29 Mar 2024

BBC’s Andrew Neil savages Boris Johnson’s ‘incompetence’ following Sajid Javid resignation

Mr Javid was told that he would need to sack his team of advisers in order to continue in the role of Chancellor. The Conservative MP for Bromsgrove refused and has now been replaced by Rishi Sunak. The BBC’s Andrew Neil told Politics Live that Boris Johnson had shown “incompetence” in losing his Chancellor a month before the budget. 

Mr Neil said: “Is it not a bit of a mess, incompetence, in fact, to lose your chancellor less than a month before the budget?

“A Chancellor that hasn’t actually delivered a budget and now he never will.”

Conservative MP Ben Bradley replied: “I can’t speculate any more than you guys can about the reasons.”

Mr Neil continued: “The reasons don’t matter.

“The fact is you have lost your Chancellor with a budget coming up on March the 11th.

“It was not over policy, Margaret Thatcher and Nigel Lawson fell out over a matter of fundamental economic policy which was weather sterling should be shadowing the Deutsche Mark or not

“I know it’s a bit technical but it was a really serious part of economic policy.

“This seems to be about who is your special advisor and if they don’t like them.”

Mr Bradley responded: “I think the Prime Minister has won a huge mandate to govern this country.

“We have all been asking for a Government to do things differently.

“He has won this big majority and he has got the opportunity to do things differently and having done that I think he has the right to lay that out in the way he sees fit.”

Sajid Javid’s resignation has been linked to tension between himself and the Prime Minister’s top aide Dominic Cummings. 

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Mr Javid was appointed as Mr Johnson’s Chancellor when he was elected in the summer, but it was not long before he started to butt heads with Mr Cummings.

Mr Johnson’s top advisor sacked Mr Javid’s own aide Sonia Khan in August – reportedly without telling the Chancellor first – starting rumours of internal conflict.

A Whitehall official also told the Financial Times that the divide had extended to the staffers of Downing Street and the Treasury.

The insider said: “It’s become like the Israel-Palestine crisis: no one can pin down exactly when it started but it’s descended into retaliation after retaliation.”

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