‘I meant it!’: Former Tory minister Gillian Keegan reacts to infamous viral comment caught on hot mic
Former Tor Education Secretary Gillian Keegan said that he said about what he said about the people who should be grateful for his “f ***** g good work, because they did not sit on A *** S and do nothing”.
Before the Chichester lost his seat in the last year’s general elections, Keegan, a senior member of the Rishi altar government, reflected his life in politics with former label deputies Jon Ashworth and Gloria de Piero. Politics Inside Out Podcast.
The interview, which will be present from Thursday morning, discussed a shameful moment in 2023, when he talked to the ITV News about RAAC News and Raac concrete scandal and crumbled schools.
At the moment of disappointment, he said, “No one knows, have you done a good job, because everyone sat on them and did nothing?” He said.
The comments were taken as MS Keegan’s aspersions throwing to his predecessors at the educational secretary work and was later made to apologize.
However, taking the problem at Podcast, he confessed to me I mean ”.
In 2010, Mrs. De Piero compared Gordon Brown to another hot microphone that he was caught by describing retired Gillian Duffy as a “bigoted woman” on live TV.
Ms. Keegan said, “To be honest, you talked about Gordon Brown and Gillian Duffy. If I told you what you said, I would be ruined, because he was acting bad about someone.
“This was me. This is very authentic. So literally, this is mine and I mean it. And in fact, I told people ‘oh, about you’.
Ms. Keegan also chose Nick Gibb, the Minister of Old Schools, who served for seven years because she recognized more than most of the civil servants.
However, when we look back, the former educational secretary, who voted against both Boris Johnson and Liz Truss in the 2019 and 2022 leadership campaigns, called for a change in the rules that could lead the party.
He said that both Tories and the Labor Party have recently been stuck with the wrong person as a leader, because members were allowed to make the last election. Especially in a parliamentary government, only deputies want to choose.
Speaking about the current member voting systems, he said: ”These systems led to the wrong conclusion. They led Jeremy Corbyn to become the leader of the Labor Party.
POLICY INSIDE OUT Podcast has a full interview. Thursday morning,
