But there are truths in life – for example, that a stich in time saves nine, beggars can’t be choosers…and that you can’t spend more than your earn. His premiership ends with record spending and taxes.
He will have believed he had no need to define himself more clearly when his poll ratings were high. So now other people are doing it for him.
She explains why she changed her mind on Brexit, confirms she would change the Bank’s mandate, and says she would be happy to find a place for Sunak in her team.
Some MPs continued to boo him, which was as it should be. Johnson delights the pit by infuriating the prigs.
“The Treasury Finance Ministry view of the world isn’t about structural reform to increase the productive capacity of the economy.”
To waste time now on internal factionalisation would be indefensible to so many party members who worked so hard to secure our majority.
It’s best thought of as a contagion that spreads across the divide between parties and factions.
The criticism of him in the newspaper most read by Party activists took little account of the effects of war and pandemic on the choices he must make.
Harry Potter’s creator is a natural rebel who likes nothing better than a good fight.
Clear milestones are needed to reassure people that action is being taken now to clear the backlog.
“We’ve already seen TV pictures of children so emaciated that they won’t survive. This is humanitarian.”
He said that we cannot vaccinate the population every six months. Ostensibly this sounded like bad news, but his message was, overall, a positive one.
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With the global population exploding and relative power of the west declining, we should reduce our dependence on the kindness of strangers.