What Philip Hammond's Brexit candour tells us about politics Andrew Brown
over 3 years in The guardian
The former chancellor’s interview reveals what he couldn’t say in government – even though it was precisely what the public needed to hear
Philip Hammond has given an interview that has once more ripped open the wounds of the Conservative party over Brexit. He says some deliberately revealing things: that Theresa May genuinely had no idea what sort of a Brexit she intended, so that when she made him chancellor after the referendum. “I sat in the cabinet room on that evening – and the only other person in the room was Fiona Hill – I did ask her about Brexit, and she said to me, ‘Brexit means Brexit.’ That was it. That was the only discussion we had about it.”
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