We estimate that streamlining the quango state could mean nearly 34,000 people off the taxpayer payroll, and a saving of £3.25 billion a year.
The future was that we would be colour-blind. Instead, wokeism tells us we should see each other as members of different races.
I was regaled with horror story after story on access to even existing testing. Confidence in the “moonshot” is non-existent.
These are the same elected representatives the whom we insisted should “step back and trust the professionals”.
As a general set of principles for the UK global aims, we would do well to turn for inspiration and leadership to Churchill and Roosevelt’s Atlantic Charter.
He may move out of Number Ten altogether for work and into the Cabinet Office at 70 Whitehall.
I know that government needs a cross-Whitehall programme that actively engages with the myriad of departments and agencies.
We will take part in this new programme – designed to ensure that infrastructure projects are delivered on time and within their allotted budget.
The Government is poised to reverse the trend to competition rather than collaboration that has marked healthcare policy for 30 years.
The Chancellor is groping his way, knowing well that the future is unknowable, trying to hold on to as much of the past as he can.
“We’ve been saying that government needs to have a proper strategy around this for many, many months.”
“Dom is a decentraliser,” we were told. “But he’s resistant to decentralising to people who he thinks aren’t up to the job.”
Post-Covid, the environment is likely to be egalitarian and interventionist. For libertarian, small state Eurosceptics, this must come as a disappointment.
It doesn’t make grand predictions about what will work or what we should do. It just prices in the ‘bad’ – in this case, emissions.