Bullish to end, his parting shots
ON THE BACKSTABBERS:
We got Brexit done and though the rejoiners and the revengers were left plotting and planning and biding their time – and I’ll have more to say about the events of the last few weeks and months in due course – we delivered on every single one of our promises.
ON BREXIT:
Some people will say that this is the end of Brexit… and the Leader of the Opposition and the deep state will prevail in its plot to haul us back into alignment with the EU as a prelude to our eventual return… and we on this side of the House will prove them wrong, won’t we?
ON COVID CRISIS:
A pandemic that was global, whose origins we do not fully understand but were nothing to do with the British people, and if anything the result of distant misbehaviour involving bats or pangolins, and whose spread was appallingly difficult to manage, and this Government never gave up through wave after wave.
ON TORY LEADERSHIP:
After three dynamic and exhilarating years in the cockpit, we will find a new leader… And the vast twin RollsRoyce engines of our Tory message, our Conservative values, will roar on – strong public services on the left, and a dynamic free market enterprise economy on the right, each boosting the other and developing trillions of pounds of thrust.
ON CORBYN:
Since our last encounters I can tell him I am proud that we have actually got unemployment down... to record lows. I know that he would rather have people on benefits, but I don’t think that’s the way forward.
ON UKRAINE:
If it is true that I’m more popular on the streets of Kyiv right now than I am in Kensington – if – that is because of the foresight and boldness of this Government in becoming the first European country to send them weapons… When the people of Ukraine have won it’ll also be a victory of right over wrong and of good over evil, and I think this Government saw it clearly and saw it whole and saw it faster than many other parts of the world, and that is why I have confidence in this Government.
ON LABOUR:
By the way, I have absolutely zero confidence in the Opposition.
ON THE BIG CALLS:
This Government has fought some of the hardest yards in modern political history, we’ve had to take some of the bleakest decisions since the war and I believe we got the big calls right.