After months of strained relations between No.10 and the man in charge of Britain's economy next door, the British prime minister pushed to assert his dominance and his Chancellor Sajid Javid decided to quit
A Downing Street official insisted the row was not about differences between Javid and Johnson themselves — arguing there was"not a cigarette paper" between the pair — and instead heaped blame on the ex-chancellor's aides for refusing to play ball as part of a wider government team.If Johnson valued Javid as much as Downing Street likes to imply, the move shows a ruthlessness in the prime minister's approach to centralizing control of government.
"The tension with Boris is not that [the prime minister] doesn't care about money, but he is innumerate. He just doesn't understand money at all. When he was mayor of London it was a sick joke in the Treasury he was just impossible, and not a proper Tory at all. He would ask for more money and more money and didn't know what to do with it and some of it went on madcap projects," the former minister said.
Johnson spent an hour trying to convince Javid to stay in post, according to one figure close to the discussions. The pair had a"good personal relationship," according to officials in both No. 10 and the Treasury. A second former official, who was working in government at the time Javid was appointed, said Johnson, while a different character to Javid, had appointed him believing he would be a competent chancellor."Practically [Javid] is a details person. He is not confrontational, he will try his best to deliver."
His willingness to take the job in the first place showed he had no problem with the adviser-sharing scheme. A spokesman for the prime minister confirmed Sunak would have no advisers of his own, and they would all be shared between the two offices and report to the prime minister.
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