If we do, we could reverse at least some of the six per cent hit to GDP it has caused so far. If we don’t, we could continue to lose productivity growth of 0.2 per cent a year.
I finish by imploring you to consider the effect on our Brexit negotiations if we change negotiators half way through.
If you don’t like what the Treasury’s up to, criticise the Chancellor, who’s accountable for it – not those who work for him, who aren’t.
It would allow the Prime Minister to gain support from the moderates of her party and, crucially, gain the initiative in the more centrist national debate.
It’s often suggested that the Remain wing of the Cabinet wouldn’t wear such a choice. I doubt it.
And the Prime Minister, tenth in the table last time round, is back in negative territory and second from bottom.
The Conservatives ought to learn from him. Plus: Vote, vote, vote for Widdecombe. Fire and Fury is damp and limp. My teeth, oh, my teeth. And: My quest to enter Phillip Lee’s brain.
I was drawn to work here by the values which I believe can help a struggling economy become more productive: autonomy, hard work, and enterprise.
Respondents are much where they were a few weeks ago, for all the turmoil that has taken place since the reshuffle.
When these terms are misused as catch-all boo-words, they lose their meaning and their essential value.
And, of course, only if there is an agreement to implement. Otherwise, we must leave immediately on 29th March 2019.
All in all, though, seven out of ten respondents want a new Party leader and Prime Minister in place before the next election.
The digital revolution throws up a legion of big policy questions – from the ethics of AI to stopping terrorism online. We can make a start by getting the facts right.
Is there a going rate for such a job — which includes wearing a prescribed colour of underwear?
It’s a sharp fall since last month and the month before, but not a collapse. The rating is back to roughly where it was in September and October.