Conservative MP and ex-minister Ed Vaizey talking to David Prever @bbcoxford about Theresa May’s leadership “quite a few want her to resign” pic.twitter.com/tJAmA0HSHB
— Peter Henley (@BBCPeterH) October 5, 2017
Ed Vaizey tells his local radio station “quite a few” Tory MPs want Theresa May to resign. Asked if he was one of them, he replied: “I’m finding it increasingly difficult to see a way forward”. Lot of Remainers on manoeuvres this morning too…
Ed Vaizey tells Sky:
“We know who Corbyn wants to have a beer with, Hamas and Hezbollah.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32DCmI0GAJU
Pro-Remain minister Ed Vaizey repeatedly dodged Brillo’s question about which, if any, economists think Osborne’s tax-hiking spending-slashing post-Brexit budget would work. Accused of “filibustering” to avoid an answer, Vaizey then launched a bizarre attack on the Remain backing IMF’s economic credibility:
“You know full well over the last six years when George took decisions about cutting spending and raising taxes organisations like the IMF told him he was playing with fire”
At times Vaizey was literally laughing at the less than credible lines he was sent out to spin…
Ed Vaizey has today become the longest serving Arts Minister ever. Harold Wilson appointed the first arts minister in 1964, Jennie Lee. Today Vaizey will beat her (nearly) 6 years in office. Here’s some of the highlights:
He has certainly been the Minister for Fun…
Entries in the comments please…
Far be it from Guido to suggest that some Ministers of the Crown are struggling to motivate themselves on this quiet August morning:
#Corbynmania reaches my chin. Temporarily. pic.twitter.com/C2OKJXlfNi
— David Gauke (@DavidGauke) August 10, 2015
.@DavidGauke I too have succumbed #Corbynmania pic.twitter.com/fVeQALOkm9
— Lord Ed Vaizey (@edvaizey) August 10, 2015
“Do not approach this man…”