
Blame Ministers in emperors’ new clothes – not naked civil servants
If you don’t like what the Treasury’s up to, criticise the Chancellor, who’s accountable for it – not those who work for him, who aren’t.
If you don’t like what the Treasury’s up to, criticise the Chancellor, who’s accountable for it – not those who work for him, who aren’t.
It’s often suggested that the Remain wing of the Cabinet wouldn’t wear such a choice. I doubt it.
That the company is a government customer isn’t the whole story. After all, few customers must manage the consequences of their supplier’s collapse.
Fairly or unfairly, the pro-EU cause is already associated with elites. The arrival of the Withdrawal Bill in the Upper House will do nothing to diminish that impression.
Given Brexit, limited parliamentary time and a hung parliament, one priority is to demonstrate how leaving the EU will create specific opportunities for Britain.
Too often it seems as though our perimeters are seen as a problem to be patched-up rather than an asset to be fully modernised.
Any new First Secretary of State should not have further ambitions of their own. And it would be pointless in any event to make any such appointment honorary.
The Prime Minister has a long story of progressive toryism to tell. Moral authority must not be conceded to Labour.
We have allowed our enemies to infiltrate almost every power centre that matters and delegitimise our very existence.
The first article in a five-piece series by the author on how Britain must prepare for March 31 2019 – and has less than 600 days to get it right.
Placing every single decision in the hands of a tiny group is not a viable long-term strategy, but a recipe for total (nervous) breakdown.
There are some risks to trade, but they should be rationalised and addressed rather than overhyped.
If she tries to work through populist edicts and diktats, she will fail. And if the Right argues that a few tax cuts for the richest will solve our problems, this will be no better.
We are keen to gather views from interested parties (such as businesses, industry groups, politicians, academics and others) about what would happen.
The Office of American Innovation might never get going, given Trump’s chaotic style, but the concept is a good one.