“Never mind the back stop, the buck stops with me… The doubters, the gloomsters, the doomsters are going to get it wrong. No one in the last few centuries has succeeded in betting against the pluck and nerve of this country. They will not succeed today”
At their first cabinet meeting the new Prime Minister warned his key colleagues in the Conservative Party that the country is at a ‘pivotal moment’ – and vowed that the country will leave the EU by the end of October ‘or earlier’.
The incoming PM gathered his team in No10 for the first time after staging a Brexit backing coup shipping out 17 of Theresa May’s ministers to create a group willing to go through with No Deal.
Boris opened the meeting by telling the assembled cabinet that they “represent the length and breadth of talent in our extraordinary party.
As you all know we have a momentous task ahead of us, at a pivotal moment in our country’s history. We are now committed, all of us, to leaving the European Union on October 31 or indeed earlier – no ifs, no buts.
But we are not going to wait until October 31 to get on with a fantastic new agenda for our country, and that means delivering the priorities of the people.”
The media and the team inside Number 10 were quick to highlight the ‘diversity’ of the new cabinet but some regarded this as a smokescreen.
Kehinde Andrews wrote in The Guardian: “Boris Johnson’s new team has been labelled a “cabinet for modern Britain” – a euphemism for non-white, with figures such as Priti Patel, Sajid Javid, James Cleverly and Alok Sharma appointed, and Munira Mirza made head of the No 10 policy unit. While all this diversity may well make cabinet look more representative of the UK population, it should not divert attention from the serious issues of racism within the party and with Johnson himself.
Fundamentally we must look beyond the gesture politics and analyse in detail who these new ministers are and what impact they will play on the UK. Let us now focus on the key players and those expected to hold significant influence:
Born in Rochdale, Sajid Javid is a second-generation migrant whose parents came from Pakistan. He says his bus driver father arrived with only £1 to his name. He was sworn in as the MP from Bromsgrove in 2010 by taking his oath of allegiance on a copy of the Koran.
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