After the election, we suggested five ways of securing the Party’s electoral position. Eight months on, how is the Government doing?
After the election, we suggested five ways of securing the Party’s electoral position. Eight months on, how is the Government doing?
After the election, we suggested five ways of securing the Party’s electoral position. Eight months on, how is the Government doing?
After the election, we suggested five ways of securing the Party’s electoral position. Eight months on, how is the Government doing?
The coronavirus press conferences gave us a glimpse of what a government agenda built around one-upping the evening news will look like.
But with the Scottish Government’s ratings apparently impervious to its record, the real question is whether these damning figures will make any difference.
The outgoing Director General will struggle to sell the Corporation as the ‘voice of the nation’ if it develops an allergy to patriotism.
The Prime Minister does not need to oversee every detail of the government himself – trapping politicians in Westminster will only burn them out.
The permanent crisis of the May years is not what holding the Government to account normally looks like.
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He has seen the SNP hold out for a week before swallowing teachers’ impossibly rosy predicted grades in full – and clearly thinks he can do better.
Also: Johnson makes ‘plea for the Union’ as he orders ministers to make more visits to Scotland and prevent the SNP taking credit for UK Government policies.
Meanwhile the Prime Minister continues to slide down the rankings, falling into the 40s for the first time since taking office.
Also: Scottish Government faces furious backlash over exam results ‘fiasco’ as Salmond and Sturgeon head for a showdown.
There may be a good case for changes, but they will only stick if the Government takes care that they are brought in for the right reasons.