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Why.
Being serious Why was he deserving of that
Made an impact in every department he was in charge of, spent time crafting and implementing new policies which were usually successful.
Even Labour figures like Andy Burnham are on record as saying he is good at delivering results and he appreciated working with him on levelling up.
At the end of the day I have people I like and dislike on both sides of the chamber. It skews based on my political views but I feel I have to appreciate when someone is working hard.
He might have done a few surprisingly acceptable things as of late, but let's not forget him destroying that schools building/repairing/upgrading project (which is why a large chunk of school buildings are now dangerous), then completely ruining secondary education with pointless, backwards reforms, loudly supporting and championing the destruction of the NHS to be replaced by a private subscription model etc...
His impact has generally been to meddle, alter, ruin and destroy, against the experience, knowledge, research and expertise of anyone who knows anything within the field and instead promoting wildly ill-thought-out early 20th century Tory whims because he's "Had enough of listening to experts".
Apologies for the rant, but he's been high up on my "worst humans in the country" list for over a decade - though he's been knocked down the list a little as of late, because who can compete with Mel Stride, Priti Patel, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Suella Braverman etc.