presenter pulled up Business Secretary on his attempt to steer an answer away from what she asked saying he did “a better body swerve than the Wigan rugby league front row.”
Asking him about the government’s development plans, including a proposed third runway for she said: “Our population up 7.3%…when will we see these first infrastructure projects come into fruition?”
“Well, they depend on which they are. Housing is easier, relatively easy, to deliver than some of the big rail and other announcements that might be part of the Chancellor’s speech today.
“But look, the kind of thing you’re talking about the pressures that we face as a country. By the way, immigration has got to come down, but I think that still allows for a greater degree of highly skilled people coming in the sectors that we need, as we would always would expect.
“It means the agenda the government’s got. It’s even more important. We’ve got to go further and faster on it.
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Kay Burley probed Business Secretary Jonathan REynolds (Image: Sky News)
“What really counts is not just how big your economy is based on population growth, how big it is per person, per capita, what that really means for living standards, and that is what the government is committed to.
We want real household disposable income for everyone in the country to be growing,” he responded.
“That was a better body swerve than the Wigan rugby league front row you would almost said, Heathrow. And then you stop yourself,” she admonished him.
“Well, I’m notgooing to pre empt, what my colleague, the chancellor, will say, but there’s a whole part of what this country needs to do that hasn’t been done in the past,” he clapped back.
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Kay Burley pulled up Jonathan Reynolds on his diversion when answering questions (Image: Sky News)
“I mean I’m in Oxford today.Brilliant, dynamic part of the UK economy. Biggest thing holding back what we need to happen in this part of the world is water infrastructure.
“We haven’t built a reservoir since 1992. I just don’t accept that we can’t tackle these issues. I don’t accept we’ve got to go on as we have done.
“I think we were elected to deliver upon change. That’s what my constituents and people around the UK told me.
“We are going to do that, and part of that is set of announcements, the determination, the resolve that will be on display from the chancellor today.”