Ponder the possible consequences of the Government losing the meaningful vote by less than expected. Disaster would be spun as triumph.
Theresa May thought aloud about low interest rates. Mark Carney hit back and no more was heard from her. Time for others to do so?
And most EU member states haven’t spent nearly enough time really thinking what the future relationship between the UK and EU should look like, either.
To my mind, once some kind of base fairness has been established, then it’s best to leave cultural transformations down to demand.
Opportunists will try to lay it all at the door of Brexit. But the truth is more complex – not least given rising wages and the knock-on effects of Trump’s tax cuts.
Mark Carney the “unreliable boyfriend”. Mario Draghi’s forthcoming downfall. Plus: will we ever get to hear Jared O’Mara’s maiden speech?
Not only would many borrowers feel pain, but the Opposition might well be tempted to seize the chance to pile on the pressure.
The core of their beliefs is that elite expertise is preferred and believed superior to messier concepts such as the market or democracy.
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.
She needs the larger majority that a poll would deliver if she is to achieve her programme at a time of pre-Brexit turbulence.
He says that whether Carney leaves is ‘clearly a decision for him’, but that he was a ‘brilliant appointment’
It is tempting to wish him gone. But, like everything else post-June, the future of the Bank should be subject first and foremost to the requirements of Brexit.
Plus: Osborne – terrible at predictions but brilliant at quizzes. The Brexiteers sweep the Select Committee board. And: all the very best to Nick Boles.
His Mansion House speech offered an opportunity to shift the tone of Brexit policy towards openness, liberalism, free trade and responsible capitalism.