After yesterday’s Sunday Times carried attacks from Tory MPs on the “teenagers” running Downing Street, David Davis has stuck the knife in this morning over the “inexperience” of the Tory government, and how it’s causing their many mistakes, telling the BBC that:
“The real reasons for mistakes, I think, is the same problem that afflicts any new government – that’s inexperience. The Tories have been out of power for 15 years, they come in and all the ministers are brand new and they’re all learning their job. There’s nothing you can do about that.”
Inexperienced people like Andrew Mitchell, who was been an MP for over 20 years? (1987-1997 and 2001-present). Perhaps what Davis really means is that he feels the Tory Party should have chosen a more “experienced” leader when they had the chance…
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