Boris Johnson tells Cabinet to work even harder after influx of first-time Tory voters demolished Labours red wall

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BORIS Johnson revealed the scale of his ambition for the next five years as he told the first meeting of his Cabinet yesterday: You aint seen nothing yet.

He told them they should have no embarrassment about calling themselves the Peoples Government.

Boris Johnson has said that the Tories are the ‘People’s Government’ and urges Cabinet to not let Brits down
He told them they should have ‘no embarrassment’ about calling themselves the ‘Peoples Government’

The PM hailed last week as a seismic election and dubbed his top ministerial team the Peoples Cabinet.

Mr Johnson told them to work flat out, 24 hours a day to deliver the peoples priorities in the first 100 days of the new Government, insisting they had a heavy responsibility to those who elected them.

He warned his Cabinet they must work even harder because people have a higher level of expectation after winning a landslide on the back of a deluge of first-time Tory voters that demolished Labours Red Wall.

And he acted on his words by banning ministers from attending the exclusive Davos summit of world leaders next month.

A senior Tory source said: Our focus is on delivering for the people, not champagne with billionaires.

The PM then enjoyed a jubilant first outing in the Commons chamber where he was cheered to the rafters by his Blue Wall of MPs behind him.

As he vowed to get to work to deliver his election promises the blue tsunami of MPs behind him chanted Get Brexit Done in unison in a triumphant afternoon for the Tory party.

Mr Johnson told MPs the new-look Parliament is a vast improvement on its predecessor and vastly more democratic than the Remainer Parliament that blocked Brexit.

‘THE PEOPLE’S GOVERNMENT’

He branded it one of the best Parliaments this country has ever produced.

Even Jeremy Corbyn congratulated the PM on his election victory in an awkward customary exchange in the chamber as MPs began to be sworn in ahead of Thursdays Queens Speech.

The Labour leader, who was cheered ironically by Tory MPs as he entered the chamber, said: Id like to offer my congratulations to the Prime Minister on winning the election and being returned to office.

“And I want to pay tribute to those members from my party particularly who sadly lost their seats in the election and therefore will not be here.

Addressing the Cabinet for the first time since the election Mr Johnson said: We should have absolutely no embarrassment about saying that we are a Peoples Government and this is a Peoples Cabinet, and we are going to be working to deliver on the priorities of the British people.

Thats what they want us to do and we must recognise that people lent us their votes at this election.

It was quite a seismic election but we need to repay their trust and work 24 hours a day, work flat out, to deliver on this.

He added: The voters of this country have changed this government and our party for the better, and we must repay their trust now to change our country for the better.

‘AIN’T SEEN NOTHING YET’

And Mr Johnson told them: You aint seen nothing yet.

In a nod to the PMs determination to listen and deliver for northern voters, he appointed Copeland MP Trudy Harrison as his parliamentary private secretary making her one of the closest MPs to the PM outside of his ministerial team.

In another move to repay the traditional Labour voters who backed him at the election, Mr Johnson will include an Employment Reform Bill to protect workers rights in Thursdays Queens Speech.

A senior No10 source said: The PM is not going to be doing anything to downgrade workers rights. Hes going to be protecting and enhancing them.

The insider also said the Government will go quite a bit further on environmental standards to reassure doubters.

Meanwhile Northern Powerhouse Minister Jake Berry said the 80-seat Tory majority was a once in a generation opportunity to power up the North and to make every arm of Government work for the people of the North.

Mr Johnson has also heaped praise on the few Labour MPs who backed his Brexit deal in October but who lost their seats as part of the collapse of the Red Wall.

Writing in the Spectators Christmas special edition he singled out the first-rate Caroline Flint, who lost her Don Valley seat after working tirelessly over the last 12 months to persuade her Labour colleagues to back a Brexit deal.

And in the spirit of Ms Flint and a handful of other Labour MPs who previously backed his deal, the PM offered an olive branch to his defeated political opponents with an offer to find common ground to heal the divisions of our country.

He also made a gesture of goodwill to the millions of Remainers who voted for him last week, saying last night: We must develop a new and warm pro-Europeanism.

It is good and sensible to achieve close relations with the EU. We can do that, and heal our countrys divisions.

Mr Johnson told MPs the new-look Parliament is ‘a vast improvement on its predecessor’
The Prime Minister also made a gesture of goodwill to the millions of Remainers and promised to ‘heal our country’s divisions’