The recently departed Prime Minister is re-emerging – and working on his memoirs. He will want to project his greatest achievement: public service reform.
There is still some way to go before we can be sure this is a truly new approach, and not a return to what has been tried before.
It would be wrong to assume you can simply sweep reducing poverty into a wider social mobility plan: they are not the same.
The big lesson of Ivan Rogers’s resignation is that they must adapt to the cultural sea-change that last year’s referendum is bringing about.
She walks it with over half the vote.
Marr reminds the former Chancellor that his warnings of a post-referendum shock to the economy that would lead to recession have been disproved.
Plus: A telling speech by George Osborne, the pleasing election of Philip Davies. Reading the Morning Star, just for a laugh. And: Andy Carroll walks on water.
While Assad’s goons kill, and we do nothing, our enemies observe our weakness.
“We are deceiving ourselves if we believe that we have no responsibility for what has happened in Syria.”
My guess is that he would have argued that this is a matter for Parliament, with no need to resort to the judiciary.
Their falling-out is an open wound that risks infection.
Too many people have seen little wage growth in over two decades, and remain in insecure jobs with no prospect of in-work progression.