Boris Johnson on social care: "When I stood on the steps of Downing St I promised to fix this crisis and after decades of drift and dither...this reforming government, this can do government, which got Brexit done, is going to get social care done."
"We're embarking on a change of direction. We're not going back to the same broken model with low wages, low growth, low skills, low productivity: all of it enabled and assisted by uncontrolled immigration."
"The answer is to control immigration, to allow people of talent to come to this country but not to use immigration as an excuse of failure to invest in people, in skills, in machinery, facilities they use to do their jobs. Truck stops- to pick an industry entirely at random."
It is worth repeating, only a few weeks ago ministers were deeply downplaying the disruption we were seeing in the economy- emphasising in particular was nothing to do with Brexit. Now it's an example of strategy working. The transition has been remarkable.
Boris Johnson: "There's a huge philosophical difference between us and Labour because in their souls they don't like levelling up. They like levelling down."
The PM has decided he wants to rhetorically move away not just from the last 10 years of Conservative govt but the economic model that has been created by Conservative govts over 40 years. Whether he actually does or not, it allows him to make his own govt appear completely new.
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