It will probe whether or or not Sunak can prepare the country for that future – and perhaps succeed Johnson himself, “one fine day”.
The final part in ConHome’s series this week on the future of the United Kingdom.
It is hard to find any precedent for the path that he has chosen. What furies drive him? Why this frantic activity?
In one of an occasional series we are running in advance of the Budget, some radical suggestions for kickstarting the British economy.
The Union needs a cultural case to walk in step with the material one – Project Love, not Project Fear. Which means looking to the future.
Plus: Sturgeon is ridiculous to criticise the PM’s trip to Scotland. And: Now’s not the time for a Coronavirus inquiry.
Also: Gove should beware Brown’s constitutional anti-wisdom; Davies makes way for Davies; and MSPs compel evidence over Salmond row.
Also: fresh woe for Nicola Sturgeon has her husband, the SNP’s chief executive, appears to contradict her evidence to MSPs on the Salmond scandal.
“The British way of governing has got to change if we’re going to meet the needs of people in all parts of the country.”
As nearly 70 of the party’s MPs successfully campaigned to remove 30 criminals from a flight, their leader has gone quiet. Again.
The sixth piece in a ConHome series this week on the Prime Minister’s Reset Moment – and what should follow from it.
“There’s got to be a time to heal before you go into any divisive, conflicting referendum.”
If if the higher education sector must take some further pain in the spending review, then the last option is the least bad.
Preventing as much long-term damage to the economy as possible now should be the Chancellor’s priority.