Put the commitment to an NI cut alongside the shelving of a corporation tax one, and one finds one of the Downing Street adviser’s main preoccupations.
Even in an age of austerity, government has plenty of power and assets, which it could on a small-scale, experimental basis transfer to the control of community groups.
Pro-EU Lords will not be able to block Brexit measures that are set out in May’s programme for Government.
Plus: Hammond’s blunder. Peers’ folly. Stephen Hawking is not, repeat not, controlled by MI5. And: my inner Mary Whitehouse meets Katie Hopkins’ slack vagina.
The harsh truth is that, nearly seven years into Conservative-led Government, we are still living beyond our means.
The manifesto committed to encouraging local takeovers of civic organisations or community assets under threat – such as local football clubs, pubs or post offices.”