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“I’m very glad he did not run our healthcare,” mentioned one TikTok person.

Mr Goh misplaced to Ms Tin Pei Ling from the Individuals’s Motion Occasion in that election. He contested his first common election in 2006 as a Employees’ Occasion candidate for Aljunied GRC.

Among the many most-watched snippets of the interview was Mr Goh’s rivalry that not all politicians in Singapore aspire to win a seat in Parliament.

“You don’t want to enter Parliament to talk up,” he mentioned. “However whether or not you affect the coverage, that’s extra necessary.”

He cited the 2011 hustings and the opposition’s spotlighting of the Housing Board’s housing insurance policies, which he mentioned “modified the (Authorities’s) coverage path”.

Requested by the host if he would run within the subsequent common election, which is because of be held by November 2025, Mr Goh mentioned: “I can not determine now, however most likely I can’t.”

“I’m nicely on monitor to discover a successor,” he mentioned, including that he would possibly nonetheless play a “supporting function” even when he doesn’t contest.

First meal again dwelling

Like most Singaporeans, MPs wasted no time in digging into their favorite native fare they missed whereas on abroad journeys.

Amongst them was Mr Christopher de Souza (Holland-Bukit Timah GRC), who mentioned he couldn’t resist having kaya butter toast and teh in Ghim Moh, lower than a day after getting back from an eight-day journey to Egypt and France.