Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner took to Twitter this morning to boast of the government’s commitment to “hard yards of governing in the national interest.” She promised Labour would ditch the “gimmicks and slogans” that have befallen the public in the past…
A Government of public service means fixing the fundamentals to deliver for the British people.
No more gimmicks and slogans, but the hard yards of governing in the national interest.
The department I lead will be the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
— Angela Rayner (@AngelaRayner) July 9, 2024
One to bookmark, but not for long – her fellow cabinet members just couldn’t resist. Approximately an hour and a half after Rayner’s tweet, Transport Secretary Louise Haigh declared her department’s new motto is, insufferably, “Move Fast and Fix Things”. Sounds suspiciously like an empty slogan…
Starmer said to Robert Peston this afternoon:
“I’m fed up with the fact that families across the country see their bills go up and down on energy businesses bills go up and down on energy because of the actions of Putin or Trump across the world.”