Kate is a Senior Trends Reporter at HuffPost UK, covering the day's most compelling stories. She has worked in the national news since she became a qualified journalist and was previously a reporter with Express.co.uk
So he asked the defence secretary: “What on earth makes you think that’s going to change in 17, 18 days?”
The minister claimed polls are just a “snapshot in time”, and that they are not “always accurate”, pointing to the incorrect poll predictions seen before the 2015 election, 2016 EU referendum and 2017 election.questioning his decision to call the general election early. Shapps paused, before replying: “That’s the kind of decision only a prime minister can make, it’s at the behest of a prime minister, and they will weigh up when they think it’s best to go to the country.“Would you have gone this early?” Ferrari hit back.Shapps replied: “I wouldn’t take it as anything, it just wasn’t my decision.”
“Were you supportive of it, Mr Shapps?” Ferrari asked. “Or did you think a little more time to let whatlet it work its way through, shouldn’t we have perhaps have allowed ourselves another five months or so of that?”Kay Burley Skewers Grant Shapps By Claiming His 'Political Dreams Are Over'Sign up and we will email you daily with the best of our political and news coverage while also giving you a taste of our most-popular lifestyle, opinion and personal blogs.
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