Jeremy Hunt’s HS2 comments from 2020 come back to haunt him
The chancellor said no HS2 would mean "no ambition for our country" in a tweet sent shortly after a Boris Johnson speech in 2020.
The chancellor said no HS2 would mean "no ambition for our country" in a tweet sent shortly after a Boris Johnson speech in 2020.
"This doesn’t work for north-to-south, it doesn’t work east-to-west, and what we’re seeing in this plan is a decade of rail replacement buses with electrification."
Ms Braverman also faced heckles during her speech from Conservative London Assembly member Andrew Boff, who took umbrage with her allusion to the “poison” of “gender ideology”.
“Politicians spent more time campaigning for change than actually delivering it."
The Prime Minister said that he does ‘not have access’ to the messages as he changed his phone several times, The Guardian has reported.
The possibility of leaving the convention was being aired as ministers struggle to meet their promise to ‘stop the boats’.
'Priti Patel was so extreme that even Theresa May called her out. Now Suella Braverman is so extreme that even Priti Patel called her out.'
It comes as the former home secretary hit out at Suella Braverman over her comments on multiculturalism.
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