FORMER Home Office minister Ann Widdecombe has compared the Government to “headless chickens running around”.
She said: “It is extremely worrying. You haven’t got leadership. What you’ve got is a bunch of headless chickens running around, talking tough, talking Thatcher, talking Churchill, acting, the grand old Duke of York, and just reversing their position.
“That tax cut at most was going to cost £2 billion, at best it was going to raise money and it might have just been neutral.
“Compare that to the £150 billion that’s gone on the energy cap and you’ll see how trivial it actually was.
“And really, they should have just stuck to the course, particularly after briefing that they were going to stick to the course.
“This is an extremely worrying sign of whether or not Britain is in safe hands. It’s in very, very pusillanimous hands.”
Speaking in an interview on GB News, she said: “I strongly suspect they were worried about an awful lot of division being displayed and decided that the easiest way to buy that off was to get rid of what everybody was focused on.
“I doubt very much, if even the most optimistic of them thinks, that it’s going to win them many votes.”
She added: “The policy is to get Britain competitive, to make the maximum of EU freedoms, to attract investment, and the bankers, the abolition of the cap, which does apply throughout the EU but wouldn’t apply to us now.
“The abolition of that cap was a sign that we’re going to be competitive, where we’re going to give the EU a run for its money.
“All I can say is the EU and indeed Keir Starmer over here must be laughing themselves silly at the moment, but that is the reason why they’ve gone for the 45p, rather than the bankers’ cap which was the more important move.”
Asked about former minister Michael Gove’s comments, Ms Widdecombe said: “Michael Gove is extremely dangerous. He spends all his time conspiring and plotting.
“I know this man, I’ve known him for years. Ironically, he was a very, very good minister. He was good in education, he was good in Justice but wasn’t there very long either, but he was good.
“But what he is not, is a good colleague, he is not loyal. And he gets bees in his bonnet and then he will do whatever he can to destroy the people in his path.
“He did it with Boris, he’s done it numerous times behind the scenes in briefing against people.
“He is a plotter. He is just a natural plotter, he can’t help himself.”
