Sajid Javid’s refusal to provide an analysis of Johnson’s deal should be a red flag to us allThere’s more to life than money. Or to be more specific, your money, along with your job and any public services you may be unlucky enough to rely on.That was the gist of Sajid Javid’s extraordinarily ill-judged letter to the Treasury select committee, in which he grandly declined to provide it with a proper analysis of how Boris Johnson’s last-minute Brexit deal will affect the economy. There is more to delivering Brexit than “spreadsheets or impact assessments”, said the man whose actual job is making such assessments so the rest of us know where our money’s going, because really this is about securing voters’ trust in politicians. What happens to trust if the economy craters because MPs were intimidated into blindly backing Brexit without understanding the consequences? Well, let’s hope we’re not about to find out. Continue reading…
Via: The most shocking thing about today’s Brexit debate? The lack of information | Gaby Hinsliff
Categories: English News