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  • a chancellor like a ll Cabinet Ministers has to be able to give candid advice to a prime minister.

  • So he is speaking truth to power.

  • I believe that the arrangement proposed would significantly inhibit that, and it would not have bean in the national interest.

  • So while I was grateful for the continued trust of the Prime Minister in wanting to reappoint me, I'm afraid that these were conditions that I could not accept in good conscience.

  • Now, I don't intend to dwell further on a ll.

  • The details on the personalities comings and goings, if you will.

  • There's been eight years since I last stood two speakers about adventure and it is a privilege to do so again.

  • When I left these benches, it was to become a minister in the treasury.

  • And it seems apt that I went back to whence I came the circle of life.

  • I'm very proud to represent the good people off Brahms Grove and I will, of course continue to do so.

  • I will also continue to champion.

  • The cause is that I believe in most, albeit from outside the government.

  • I confess that I had hoped that have a little longer to make a difference from the inside.

  • Now, when reflecting on the dynamic between number 10 a number 11 it is natural to look at past relationships.

  • There's no one size that fits.

  • Any model that works or doesn't depends on the personalities that are involved, just a CZ, much as the processes.

  • It depends on the mutual respect and trust that allows for constructive, creative tension between teams.

  • Why did he stop creative but dynamic that it has always been the case that advisors advise ministers decide on ministers decide on their advisers?

  • I couldn't see why the Treasury, with the vital role that it plays, should be the exception to that.

  • I very much hope that the new chancellor will be given the space to do his job without fear or favour on.

  • I know this Mr Speaker that my right honourable friend for Richmond is Maur than capable of rising to the challenge way he worked for me as a local government minister.

  • Ondas chief secretary and I could not have asked for a better working relationship.

  • Indeed, I had lobbied the PM for him to be given the role of chief secretary and to keep it at the recent reshuffle.

  • But I did get my way.

  • My right honourable friend.

  • The prime minister has won a huge mandate to transform our country on Dhe.

  • Already he is off to a great start, ending the parliamentary paralysis, defeating the radical left.

  • Getting getting Brexit done points based immigration system on an infrastructure revolution.

  • Now our party, our government, has a huge opportunity.

  • Onda responsibility ahead.

  • We need a resolute focus on long term outcomes and delivery, not short term headlines.

  • The treasury as an institution as an economic ministry should be the engine that drives this new agenda.

a chancellor like a ll Cabinet Ministers has to be able to give candid advice to a prime minister.

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