Economics
Boris Johnson Ambushed His Chancellor in a Quest for Control
- Sajid Javid didn’t think his job was on the line in reshuffle
- But the conditions put to him were untenable, so he quit
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Sajid Javid never saw it coming. Britain’s finance minister began his day expecting to be confirmed in his position as a mere formality, in Boris Johnson’s reshuffle of his cabinet team.
But as he sauntered, smiling, up Downing Street and through the famous black door of Number 10 at 10:30 a.m., Javid was walking into the fight of his life. An hour later, after a catastrophic face-to-face row with Johnson, he resigned.