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For the new edition of #brokenheartlands, I sat down with Boris Johnson earlier this spring for an hour discussion about the red wall, blue wall, policy challenger and how he hopes to win the next election:
Here’s some highlights of what the prime minister had to say 🧵
Here’s some highlights of what the prime minister had to say 🧵
#1: How does he define levelling up? No one is quite sure what it is.
"It's a frustration that the Treasury spent so long in the postwar decades, particularly after the great 1980s boom in the City, thinking that the cash cow for the UK was just in London and the south east.”
"It's a frustration that the Treasury spent so long in the postwar decades, particularly after the great 1980s boom in the City, thinking that the cash cow for the UK was just in London and the south east.”
#2: Johnson said the "the single most important thing in levelling up was high skilled/high wage jobs.
“I believe in equality of opportunity. I really do think there are places around this country which could achieve so much more and which are starting to achieve so much more.”
“I believe in equality of opportunity. I really do think there are places around this country which could achieve so much more and which are starting to achieve so much more.”
🏴🌹Remember "coalition of chaos"? It's back
The Conservatives are set to reprise their 2015 election message to thwart the Lib Dems march in the south, as Boris Johnson told me when we talked for an hour earlier this spring
Latest @FinancialTimes column ft.com/content/31a6ab…
The Conservatives are set to reprise their 2015 election message to thwart the Lib Dems march in the south, as Boris Johnson told me when we talked for an hour earlier this spring
Latest @FinancialTimes column ft.com/content/31a6ab…
The Tiverton and Honiton by-election result last week should really worry Conservative party HQ. Although Labour's gain in Wakefield was also important, there's 20 odd seats akin to the Yorkshire town. But 230 are very similar to what they lost in Devon.
ft.com/content/31a6ab…
ft.com/content/31a6ab…
Come the next election, the Tories will argue Labour must gain 121 seats to have a Commons majority of just one.
Therefore the only plausible route to power is a coalition with the Lib Dems, but the two parties may still struggle for a majority.
ft.com/content/31a6ab…
Therefore the only plausible route to power is a coalition with the Lib Dems, but the two parties may still struggle for a majority.
ft.com/content/31a6ab…
