Sajid Javid fires parting shot at No. 10

Former chancellor delivers ‘stinging attack’ in post-resignation statement

Sajid Javid
Sajid Javid resigned as chancellor in the latest Cabinet reshuffle
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Former chancellor Sajid Javid has delivered a biting indictment of Downing Street in his first statement to MPs since resigning.

Javid stunned Westminster by quitting as chancellor in the middle of Boris Johnson’s Cabinet reshuffle earlier this month. Amid simmering tensions between No. 10 and the Treasury, he said at the time that “no self-respecting minister” could accept the conditions the prime minister was imposing on his department - and was promptly replaced by Rishi Sunak.

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