That's not the point. He was telling the interviewer the government wouldn't interfere in a private sector business yet the government HAVE bailed out much larger businesses already, banks with directors with duties of care to their stakeholders that flouted the rules systemically for years and...
I heard Transport Minister Grant Shapps defending government decision not to bail out Thomas Cook on basis that they're a business subject to market forces and it wasn't the government's policy to bail out private sector business.
Apart from the banks...