May warns Davos of globalisation’s downside – and “the cult of individualism”. Her speech: full text
“We need to recognise the way in which a more global and individualistic world can sometimes loosen the ties that bind our society together.”
“We need to recognise the way in which a more global and individualistic world can sometimes loosen the ties that bind our society together.”
Circumstances dictate a suck-it-and-see Autumn Statement – but also one that can transcend its own caution by pointing to a visionary landscape ahead.
It has been where there is an air of panic and chaos, with a government forced to bow its knee to the markets, that there is real political damage.
We present chapter and verse of seven ways in which Project Fear’s short-term warnings have turned out to be mistaken.
Triumphalism would not only be unfair to David Cameron, one of the most electorally successful Tory election winners of modern times. It would also be deeply wrong.
It will risk being unable to get its business through the Commons.
How can the Chancellor keep a straight face while spouting this nonsense?
“If we’re going to balls our country up let’s do it ourselves, not let somebody else do it.”
Do people find sovereignty in a Parliament they regrettably take little interest in – or in actual power and the pound in their pocket: their job; their standard of living?