Grant Shapps – No 10 and 11 should be working ‘hand in glove’
Sophy Ridge’s first guest was the Transport Secretary Grant Shapps. On Thursday, Boris Johnson carried out his long planned cabinet reshuffle, which saw the shock resignation of the Chancellor Sajid Javid. It emerged that Javid had been told that he could stay in his job on the condition that he sack all of his special advisers, something which he was not prepared to countenance. Ridge questioned Shapps about this development:
When asked about Sajid Javid’s resignation, @grantshapps says he thinks viewers would likely want advisers to “be working hand in glove” with Number 10.Asked if he would have signed up to the terms that Mr Javid rejected, Mr Shapps does not address the question directly #Ridge pic.twitter.com/Mh06sx7dTc— Sophy Ridge on Sunday (@RidgeOnSunday) February 16, 2020
SR: If you had gone into your meeting with Boris Johnson last week and he’d asked you to sack all of your advisors, would you have gone along with it?
GS: …I’d be pretty concerned if my advisers weren’t working hand in glove.
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