Tory Minister: Tory government nearly killed my family business – so I became a Tory

LabourList favourite, Limo fan, photography buff and sleepyhead Matt Hancock gave an interesting speech today, in which he said:

“I came to politics having worked in business and as an economist, essentially because of a harrowing experience in my youth. In the early 1990s, as interest rates hit 15%, my family’s computer software business nearly went bust.”

That would be the early 90s, when the Tory Party were in power – and where David Cameron was a Special Adviser in the Treasury?

So Matt Hancock decided – after the Tory Party caused interest rises to rise so high that his family business nearly went bust – that the time was right to become a Tory.

It’s an interesting argument Matt, but we’re not sure it’ll catch on…