'How well has that gone?' NickFerrariLBC questions Transport Secretary Mark Harper's early support for Boris Johnson's premiership. Mark_J_Harper
put Transport Secretary Mark Harper on the spot about his early support for Boris Johnson when he became Prime Minister in 2019.“You wrote the following:
‘Delighted to be reelected as part of a Conservative team heading back to Parliament to #getbrexitdone and unleash Britain's potential under Boris Johnson’s leadership.’“The economy’s crashed, nurses are about to go on strike, there are no trains, and we’ve got the slowest growth in the whole of Europe. That’s the potential under Boris Johnson is it?” he continued.
Mr Harper replied: “Two rather large things happened which you haven’t mentioned. We had a global COVID pandemic which meant that we had the biggest contraction of the economy…”“As did France, as did the United States”, Nick cut in again.Mr Harper added: “Both of those things were not in our manifesto in 2019 and they’re things we’ve had to deal with.
“I make no apology for the huge amount of support that Rishi Sunak put in place when he was Chancellor, which meant that we saved millions of jobs, we saved thousands of businesses.” “Despite all the challenges that we undoubtedly face today from the inflation caused by Putin's war in Ukraine we actually have very low unemployment so huge challenges faced by the government, but I think huge challenges dealt with very successfully.
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