In a move that'll shock many, Matt Hancock has admitted that government ministers ‘aren’t experts’ 🙄
Moyles asked Matt: ‘If you’re an MP and you’re tootling along doing your MP job, how does it work? Do you get a phone call saying, “Hi, would you like to be Minister of Transport?”‘It’s reshuffle day and the first thing the Prime Minister does is call the people who he or she is going to fire and invites them into the office in the House of Commons.
‘That way the cameras can’t see them coming and going. Face-to-face. These are very sensitive conversations. Then they go into Downing Street and they call people in in order of seniority. They have a whiteboard with all of the cabinet positions on it and they go from senior down.‘Sometimes people say, “No, I don’t want to be Defence Secretary, I’d take Transport” and it is literally a reshuffle as in they’re moving names across this whiteboard.
The pair then discussed if that essentially meant politicians ‘two jobs’ and ‘more money’, to which Mr Hancock confirmed. The former health secretary went on to admit that the job of a minister was ‘not to be a subject matter expert’.He said: ‘Of course, you need to get to grips with the subject matter, but that is only half the job.‘There’s a load of transferable skills – handling parliament, communicating with the public, taking decisions effectively – and then you have the subject matter experts who advise you on it all.Even the Chief Executive of the Health Service.
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