The centre of power clearly lies with Boris Johnson and his chief adviser and strategist Dominic Cummings, writes Therese Raphael
The centre of power clearly lies with Boris Johnson and his chief adviser and strategist Dominic CummingsBritain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson flanked by Britain's new chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak , on February 14, 2020. Picture: AFP/MATT DUNHAM
The prime minister just didn’t promise to make staying tenable. Javid lost a long-running battle to keep control over his team of special advisers . These officials are very important — and usually loyal — to cabinet ministers, but the prime minister’s office now wants to centralise their appointments. Javid’s advisers became pawns in a bigger contest for control, a word this government rather likes.
In his resignation letter Javid wrote that it was important for leaders “to have trusted teams that reflect the character and integrity that you would wish to be associated with”. That sounds a lot like a dig at Cummings. The new rules commit the government to balancing the budget and limiting investment spending to 3% of GDP up from 2% before. He also pledged that debt would be lower at the end of the five-year parliamentary term, rather than at the end of this year, as promised previously.
Sunak has risen so far so fast that most Britons won’t have heard of him before a few months ago. Back in June, he and two other lawmakers wrote an article in the Times newspaper backing Johnson as Conservative Party leader. Javid was running for the job then too, along with other now-forgotten candidates.
If the government’s lavish spending plans and reports of wealth taxes haven’t unnerved traditional conservatives already, a tamed treasury will. David Gauke, a former Remain-supporting MP and cabinet minister, suggests Javid’s ouster undermines the chancellor’s ability to ask hard questions about spending.
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