Latest updates: Boris Johnson says ministers should focus on ‘cutting costs of government’ after William Hague says his position is ‘untenable’
Johnson tells cabinet they can now 'draw a line' under Partygate and focus on issues like cutting costs of governmentused his opening address to cabinet this morning to seek to draw a line under Partygate. PA Media has his words, and he tried to flesh out the line in the press notice issued early this morning
Johnson claimed yesterday’s vote was “very important” because it meant the government could now “draw a line” under Partygate.It was a very important day because we are able now to draw a line under the issues that our opponents want to talk about and we are able to get on talking about the issues, what the issues that I think the people want ... and what we are doing to help them and to take the country forward. That is what we are going to do. We are going to focus exclusively on that.
It is the totally morally, socially, economically, politically the right thing to do and we should be proud, proud, proud of what we’re doing.Arguing that the government was making a “huge investment” in public services, he said:We as Conservative ministers, we have got to make sure at every stage that we are driving reform and driving value.
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