If the Prime Minister doesn’t have confidence in his most senior Ministers, it’s impossible to see how anyone else can.
The Treasury has been welded at the top to Number Ten. Now there’s a push to do more of the same to the Office.
In government under Cameron, Francis Maude and his SpAds helped to make a difference. Time to call in Baroness Finn to hold a review.
The list presents selectors with a wide range of experience and backgrounds to whittle down to the eventual shortlist.
“We need to give it its own clear funding stream that is then permanently separate. For all its flaws, is almost the only bit of the British state that is genuinely loved.”
The recently departed Prime Minister is re-emerging – and working on his memoirs. He will want to project his greatest achievement: public service reform.
He represents a proudly provincial conservatism, in which the condition of the striving classes, and of the industries on which they depend, matter a hundred times more than the City of London.
On polling day, we honour the unknown heroes of this government – the Special Advisers, without whom little of what has been done would have been done.
It’s not an optional extra – it’s crucial to delivering an effective Brexit and making the most of the opportunities outside the EU.