Jonathan Freedland`s assertion that Johnson`s cabinet "is startlingly right wing" is, sadly, something of an understatement (From today, the Brexiters will have no one else to blame, 25/07/19). The co-authors of "Britannia Unchained", which infamously in 2012 described British workers as "among the worst idlers in the world", and British children having no aspiration, being only "interested in football and pop music", are in such dominant positions, they are bound to have a huge influence on all policies. With Raab and Patel at the Foreign and Home offices respectively, Truss the International Trade secretary and Kwarteng attending cabinet meetings as business minister, all talk of Johnson`s "One Nation" conservatism is clearly nonsense!
So much for the prime minister`s pledges on "uniting our country"! The book actually stated that the UK should stop the irrelevant debates about "sharing the pie between manufacturing and services, the north and the south, women and men". Heaven help us!
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