A bruised Ian Murray has told Holyrood magazine he received “no explanation” for his sacking as Scotland Secretary earlier this year, claiming Number 10 unceremoniously dumped him despite doing “a half-decent job”. Guido hears the chip on his shoulder can be observed from space. Apparently his wife is “f****** furious”:
“For me, the hardest part was the complete lack of any sort of recognition for doing a half-decent job. That’s the hardest bit. The second hardest bit is having no explanation of why I was sacked, and as we sit here today, I still don’t have that, despite me asking on a number of occasions. The third bit is that I didn’t think I deserved the public humiliation of it all. I genuinely don’t know why it happened and that feels like an unfair gap… It’s fair to say that [my wife] Miriam was absolutely f****** furious.”
He goes on to add that his wife felt he was “massively under-appreciated” in the Cabinet (what else is she going to say?), and it took him five hours to accept the offer of his current job as a culture minister. Yes, he is still in government…
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”