Britain needs an Elon Musk to help run the country – Labour’s WASTING too much taxpayer cash, says Tory MP
Watch Andrew Griffith on Never Mind The Ballots in the video player below
BRITAIN needs “fantastic” businessmen like Elon Musk to help run the country, a top Tory MP said today.
Shadow Business Secretary Andrew Griffith hailed Donald Trump for assigning the tech billionaire a role in his new administration.
3
Tory Shadow Business Secretary Andrew Griffith today insisted businessmen like Elon Musk should help rule Britain
3
On Never Mind The Ballots Andrew Griffith praised Donald Trump for bringing ech billionaires into his new administration
3
Donald Trump this week announced that tech billionaire Elon Musk will head up a new cost-cutting Department for Government EfficiencyCredit: Reuters
Musk and fellow billionaire businessman Vivek Ramaswamy will head up new cost-cutting office, the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge).
The office was named after the popular Doge meme – the famous Japanese dog Kabosu behind the cryptocurrency Dogecoin.
Elon is known to be a fan of the meme, once changing X (formerly Twitter) logo to the face of Doge.
Trump said in a statement on Tuesday that he will “pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies”.
The Shadow Business Secretary added: “We do need an element of rewiring, we’re spending too much taxpayer’s money and delivering too little outcomes for society.”
Mr Griffith hit out at the British state for sticking with too many arms length government bodies, which aren’t accountable to parliament.
The Tories want to slash 72,000 civil servant roles and slowly dismantle quangos they don’t think produce results.
Mr Griffith said: “You’ve got to actually start working on the machine itself.
“It’s very tempting to just pick one particular headline or one particular policy.
“Actually, the word rewiring is quite important.”
