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…
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