tella s more about the detail of what was happening in the cabinet and the disagreements there. he talks and the disagreements there. he: talks about how and the disagreements there. he talks about how boris johnson wasn t talks about how borisjohnson wasn t really in charge, key decisions were being taken by dominic cummings. you may say it s not a massive surprise, he was the chancellor in the early 2020 and resigned in february 2020 after a very public row with dominic cummings. it may not come as a prize he was critical of borisjohnson s chief adviser. it paints a picture, you and i have spoken about it, this picture of ks and dysfunctionality in number ten. we will get more of this. he talked about how the cabinet was less experienced than previous governments. we will be hearing about his time as chancellor in the run up, the early part of the pandemic, but he was a health secretary following matt hancock in the spring of 2021. matt hancock resigned following a scandal
rishi sunak, now prime minister, then chancellor, had launched the eat out to help out scheme to get people back into restaurants and pubs over that first summer of covid in 2020. but he had not consulted them before launching that. clearly, they made it clear, they took something of a dim view of that. that was last week, that was the science, this week we are back with the politicians. today, starting this morning with sadiq khan, mayor of london, and we also have mayors from the north west of england, steve rotherham, liverpool, greater manchester, andy burnham, couple of elements there, remember, there were restrictions brought in on a hot dry basis initially in the autumn of 2020 to effectively try to play wacko mole as hotspots popped up. that then gave way to a more structured tiers system which was supposed to solve some of the regularities and standardise the procedure across the country. i suspect we will get into a lot of that, plus other questions like sadiq khan
we shouldn t cut taxes. it s been that we could only cut taxes once we have controlled inflation and debt. first cut inflation, then cut taxes. and that s why i made a promise to have inflation and the official statistics show that promise has now been met. so now that inflation has halved, and our growth is stronger, meaning revenues are higher, we can begin the next phase and turn our attention to cutting tax. we will do this in a serious, responsible way, based on fiscal rules to deliver sound money and alongside the independent forecast of the office for budget responsibility. that was the prime minister, for budget responsibility. that was the prime minister, rishi for budget responsibility. that was the prime minister, rishi sunak. i for budget responsibility. that was| the prime minister, rishi sunak. we are also expecting to hear from chancellorjeremy hunt, addressing the cbi, the confederation of british industry is, due to address them shortly, we will bring you
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