Her refusal to gossip with journalists makes her serious.
They can wring their hands one day and ring the bells the next – or vice-versa. After all, they rejoiced when sterling joined the ERM. We know how that one ended.
The tale of the Troubled Families programme helps to prove that if the state doesn’t work properly, we won’t gain from leaving the EU.
They are joined by Lord Hope, former Deputy President of the Supreme Court, and Joshua Rozenberg.
Lord Howard and Charles Moore cross swords with Lord Hope and Joshua Rosenberg on the changing role of our courts and the criticism it brings.
“In the EU there is no opposition – there is permanent government by a governing class. That’s wrong.”
Instead of trying to eradicate all traces of hauteur from his manner, let the Chancellor play up to these.
Plus: Loathsome Winston McKenzie. Alex Salmond, Thatcher fan. The indestructible Keith Vaz. And: my interview with Charles Moore is well worth a listen.
The Chancellor questions the author about “Everything She Wants”, the second volume of his biography of the three-times-victorious Prime Minister.
Thatcher’s biographer captures the extreme precariousness of her position even as she confounded the Left and scored some of her greatest triumphs.
Authors have less access to papers than their predecessors, and their subjects tend to be less interesting – and are often still alive.
Cameron’s former chief strategist has lost patience with crony capitalism. The new Deputy Chairman of the Party is well-placed to help make real his radical vision.
“I agree with a huge amount of things the Conservative Party stands for. And its activists and most of its MPs believe in the things I believe in.”
“If you are to introduce radical change and drive radical change it is inevitable that you will be involved in controversy and it is inevitable that you will be unpopular.”