Alastair Campbell

To move Suella.

And he needed someone that he felt could hit the ground running.

I didn't do the reshuffle, but I don't think David was doing a good job as foreign secretary.

I think he was over-indexing for the US.

I think he was overplaying his relationship with Vance, which has turned out not to be that useful.

They had a relationship, but he's not really exercised much diplomatic leverage from that.

And I also have pretty good authority because you never really step out of foreign affairs.

that he wasn't spreading the love widely enough.

So this, this all goes, this all goes back to the fundamental.

It's the economy.

Stupid.

Everything is dependent on a foundation stone of a healthy and vibrant economy.

And our economy has grown tremendously.

too slowly.

We are not the only ones, but our economy has grown too slowly.

That has meant that there's less money to go around than some governments would like.

And I think we have not applied the money we have had.

to the right priorities.

Uh, I think our industrial base, I didn't just mean heavy industry, but a lot of businesses, everything, everything from, from the pottery to data centers requires a large amount of, uh, cheap and reliable energy.

And we've, we've, we've, we've drifted away from understanding that.