"[On Sajid Javid] He's chancellor of the exchequer. He's got the second or third most powerful role in government and he still doesn't feel like he can exercise power? I get this art of playing politics to get to a position where you're increasingly more powerful … but I think that politicians are so focused on amassing power that they forget about what they're amassing it for."
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Sajid Javid had managed to gain agreement for an independent inquiry into Islamophobia in the Conservative Party during the party's 2019 leadership election but, later, new prime minister Boris Johnson announced a "general investigation into prejudice of all kinds".
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