The transport secretary, Grant Shapps, has said “politicians don’t expect to be popular all the time” and people are “over-interpreting” the boos directed at Boris Johnson when he attended a service for the Queen’s platinum jubilee. Shapps, one of the prime minister’s closest cabinet allies, also argued that the government should focus on running the country rather than be distracted by short clips. “There were also people cheering and you’re not asking me why they did that,” he told the BBC’s Sunday Morning programme. “Politicians don’t expect to be popular all the time. Getting on with running the country is a job where you have to take difficult decisions a lot of the time.

Source: The Guardian June 05, 2022 17:06 UTC