if you look at the odds for the next Conservative leader, there are no white men among the front runners. The top five comprise Kemi Badenoch, Penny Mordaunt, James Cleverly, Suella Braverman and Gillian Keegan.
“I don’t mind if the government is in trouble, I do mind very much what’s happening to our country”, says the former Chancellor.
These savings were desperately needed to make Darling’s books balance. They were put in Labour’s 2010 manifesto.
His cuts were so shocking that, in his own Budget speech in June 2010, George Osborne said that there would be no further such reductions.
As the tenth anniversary of the 2010 election approaches, the author says that Labour’s own austerity record and plans were almost as tough as the Coalition’s.
It is not that he dares to be dull, but that he cannot help being so. He has prudently turned it to his advantage.
He never resolved his conflict between being brought up to repress his emotions and as a politician having to express them.
“He is the Red Adair of the administration – the middle-order batsman who, if the openers are out cheaply, ensures that the middle order does not collapse.”
If our survey’s findings are representative, this majority either agrees with the Chancellor or is in unity mode or both.
We don’t need more laws with anti-strike provisions – the Government already has the tools to deal with the transport crisis.
Overall, my advice is not to seek to reduce interest rates yet further which could have contrarian effects.
Led by former Treasury officials, this think tank has placed itself at the heart of the argument about how to help the low-paid.
Brown and Darling began this fantastical claim. A Tory government should not perpetuate it.
A remarkable amount has been achieved. Often against the odds and in the face of adversity. And certainly in circumstances far less benign than those faced by New Labour.