ConservativeHome’s snapshot retrospective on the shortest premiership in British political history – one year on and day by day.
ConservativeHome’s snapshot retrospective on the shortest premiership in British political history – one year on and day by day.
Against a darkening international environment, where the structural advantages and market liberalisations of the post-war decades are being rolled back, peddling the same old snake oil of a tax cut here or there just won’t wash.
The Edinburgh Reforms, changes in procurement rules, the UK’s accession into CPTPP, avoiding a £191 billion contribution to the EU’s “Stimulus Fund”. All these are ignored by a remainer Quango guilty of confirmation bias.
On some issues, he got it wrong. On other issues, he got it right but is misrepresented by some of his cheerleaders. And on other issues, he was right in the context of the time but circumstances have changed.
Allowing Matt Hancock to jet off to imaginary South Korean firms – or to eat very real kangaroo testicles down in Oz – is the price one pays for half-decent representatives.
Over this speech hung a sense that the Chancellor was with impeccable dutifulness making the best of a bad job.
Merely “looking at” such measures as raising the pension age and reforming the benefits system will not be enough to demonstrate fiscal credibility.
The ex-Prime Minister tells Fraser Nelson and Katy Balls that she’s “not desperate to get back into Number 10”.
The Scottish Secretary, understated in his public utterances, “often makes the wittiest interjections in Cabinet discussions”.
She was not an easy person to contradict and no one in her circle made the argument against unfunded tax cuts.
Is he fated to be a fire-fighter, a leader grappling with crisis? Or can he find the political space to deliver a more personal message – perhaps to do with education?
Even though she won a big majority of the Conservative members plus the largest number of MPs declaring, there was a feeling from the very outset that she would not be allowed to govern in the way she wanted.