With apologies to our younger readers but can you believe it? It’s been seventeen years since Margaret Thatcher won the support of 204 MPs and Michael Heseltine won 152 votes. In many ways it seems like yesterday to me. The 52 majority wasn’t enough to end the attempt to oust her and a few days […]
My years of experience of the Whitehall machine tells me that the Government will have a fight on its hands. Ministers must push for reform.