Foreign secretary talks up party’s prospects – and his ‘very good boss’ Rishi Sunak – on morning broadcast round
George Osborne rates David Cameron so highly that, as well as describing him as “acting like the British prime minister” on the world stage (see 9.30am), he even suggested in one recent edition of his Political Currency podcast that Keir Starmer should keep him on as foreign secretary.
A move like that would be unprecedented in recent UK politics, but it happens from time to time in the US. When Barack Obama became president, he retained Robert Gates as his defence secretary even though Gates had worked for his Republican predecessor, George W Bush.
There’s absolutely no prospect of that happening. I’m a Conservative and I’m proud to be working for a Conservative government.
I’m very happy to be serving under Rishi Sunak. I’m a Conservative. I work for Conservative governments. I did lead a coalition government, but that’s as far as I’m taking it.
The best thing to do in the case of Israel is to recognise this has been a failure for Iran.
And so they should, as President Biden has said to them, as it were, take the win and then move on to focus on how to eradicate Hamas in Gaza and how to get those hostages free …
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