Boris Johnson had been getting more and more irritated by the variety of unhelpful tales in newspapers quoting a ‘senior Treasury supply’. Quantit
Boris Johnson had been getting more and more irritated by the variety of unhelpful tales in newspapers quoting a ‘senior Treasury supply’. Quantity 10 didn’t blame Sajid Javid for them, however – rightly or wrongly – his staff.
All of it strengthened Boris Johnson’s want for a joint Quantity 10/ 11 operation. He needed a relationship between the 2 political groups akin to that between Cameron and Osborne’s; certainly, what Quantity 10 is doing is strictly what Cameron and Osborne would have carried out if they’d gained a majority in 2010.
So when Sajid Javid went to see Boris Johnson this morning, Johnson informed Javid that he needed a joint operation and that solely certainly one of Javid’s staff can be saved on. Javid felt that he couldn’t settle for these phrases and stop.
Even now, Quantity 10 is eager to emphasize that its quarrel was not with Sajid Javid however his camp. I’m informed that there’s a ‘method again for him if he desires one’.
The brand new Quantity 10 and 11 can be ‘watertight politically’. Considerably, Rishi Sunak is a Brexiteer, so the Treasury and Quantity 10 will now be aligned on Brexit. As one Whitehall supply jokes, that is one space the place Quantity 10 is eager on excessive alignment.
At present has been one other reminder of how this Quantity 10 is set to make sure that everybody in authorities is on the identical web page. It desires loyalty and self-discipline in addition to competence.