Foreign secretary James Cleverly tells colleagues removing the prime minister would be a ‘disastrously bad idea’
The foreign secretary, James Cleverly, said the government will be making “professional and tough decisions” on public spending.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, he said:
There are always areas of public expenditure where we can make sure that the growth doesn’t outmatch the growth in economy.
Defence is going to grow to 3% of GDP. That is above inflation growth. That is committed to. There are other areas where we are going to have to keep it much closer to inflationary growth, but the Prime Minister said we are not going to be cutting public services.
That is what she said she would do. That is what she is doing. The fact that that seems to have taken some people by surprise is not her fault. We are going to stick with the plan. The plan is to grow the economy.
I think changing the leadership would be a disastrously bad idea politically and also economically.
We are absolutely going to stay focused on growing the economy.
