Alastair Campbell views John Healey's appointment as Chancellor as a move to remodel the Treasury and depart from its previous operations.

“John Healey I think shares a lot of Andy Bernham's views about the treasury and I've been rereading the Andy Burnham Steve Rotherham book Head North and there's a lot in there about how the real problem in this country is the way the Treasury operates. So he's sending somebody in to remodel the Trea”

The current government lacks empathy and political skills, leading to a disastrous implementation of their radical economic ideology.

“they are completely I think lacking in normal empathy political skills and therefore let's trust some questions quoting I suspect are totally bewildered by the reaction of the markets and the reaction the conservative party to what they've done”