As one Cabinet Minister put it to me recently, the Treasury has never been interested in growth, just in collecting taxes.
Plus: If there’s a reshuffle it’ll surely be in late July or early September. And: My interview with David Amess.
William Keegan’s memoir describes with ebullient good humour how he covered half a century of bad news.
The trend fuels harmful misrepresentations and myths. It might bring in ad revenue, but it harms the fabric of our democracy.
Wishful thinking is a risky thing to indulge – it can lead people not to ask sufficiently tough questions to test the things that they are told.
“It is not about Remain or Leave,” the Observer journalist replies – while notably failing to say “yes”.
Lavish campaign spending does not guarantee electoral success. If it did, Brexit wouldn’t be happening. And Theresa May would now have a majority.
Given that most people don’t really understand what it is or how it works, it’s a field ripe for under- or over-reaction. Or, indeed, both at the same time.
Given the resistance of Tory MPs to spending cuts and tax rises, Hammond’s easiest course would be to push any into the future. But this wouldn’t be problem-free…
There is time to correct the lack of preparedness of our customs and computers for 2019. But it is running out.
If this odd couple succeed, the millionaire gets to claim he made Brexit happen and the paper gets to imply that Brexit is illegitimate.
In the wake of him losing his libel case against her, we re-publish Mark Wallace’s 2017 article on these best of enemies.