Brokenshire reveals he was born for the job
James Brokenshire, the new Housing, Communities and Local Government Secretary, has revealed that he used to discuss council budgets with his father – a former local authority chief executive – when he was a boy.
Making his debut in his new role at the despatch box, Brokenshire was urged by his Labour shadow Andrew Gwynne to demand more money for councils.
Brokenshire retorted that “local government is in the blood with me, in some ways, so some of the debates about local councils were ones that I had as a boy, believe it or not”.
Commons speaker John Bercow chipped in to this local government love-in with: “It sounds like meal times at Chez Brokenshire were enormous fun.”
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