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19 Jun 08
PHILIP JOHNSTONE | How often have we read stories over the past ten years or so that promised populist measures in the field of criminal justice, garnered a few favourable headlines for their...
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13 Jun 08
MIKE THATCHER | One irony from the current torrid time faced by Gordon Brown is that the issue that was once his greatest strength – the economy – is what has laid him low.
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13 Jun 08
DAVID WALKER | Nothing to do with me, squire. That’s the attitude of most public sector employees to the implosion of the Brown government.
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6 Jun 08
MIKE THATCHER | It’s national volunteers’ week. Which might explain why so many politicians have been out and about, lavishing praise on the country’s Cinderella services and unsung heroines and...
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6 Jun 08
MELISSA BENN | Gordon Brown is currently besieged with wise advice. Be bold, cut taxes. Be bold, increase taxes. Stand your ground. Give ground.
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30 May 08
MIKE THATCHER | The trouble with U-turns is that they are rarely one-offs. Ministers who correct one ‘mistake’ inevitably find themselves swamped with demands to reverse a wide range of...
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30 May 08
ROBERT SHRIMSLEY | The early impressions were positive. The first date went well and even the day trip to Crewe was surprisingly jolly. But now David Cameron is on his second date with the voters...
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23 May 08
MIKE THATCHER | If Hazel Blears has her way, Utopia is just around the corner. Apathy will be banished, every citizen will be an active citizen and people will work together for the greater good.
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23 May 08
DAVID LIPSEY | Gordon Brown could still be prime minister in 2011 — really. Here are a few reasons why.
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16 May 08
MIKE THATCHER | According to the governor of the Bank of England, the nice decade is over. And doesn’t Gordon Brown know it.
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16 May 08
PETER HETHERINGTON | ‘Humphrey,’ I said. ‘We simply have to slim down the civil service. How many people are there in this department?’
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9 May 08
MIKE THATCHER | In the glory days of New Labour, anything seemed possible – even, dare we say it, introducing higher taxes to pay for better public services.
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9 May 08
NIALL DICKSON | Just as the NHS celebrates its sixtieth birthday, health minister Lord Darzi will publish his long-awaited review — described at its launch by Health Secretary Alan Johnson as a ‘...
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2 May 08
MIKE THATCHER | After nine months in office, the prime minister is ‘listening and learning’. He’s admitted to making a few mistakes, but Gordon Brown still believes he is the right person to lead...
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2 May 08
HELEN DISNEY | As this issue of Public Finance went to press, Gordon Brown was facing the first real electoral test of his premiership, with Labour expected to take a hammering in local elections...
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25 Apr 08
MIKE THATCHER | It used to be Tony Blair who regularly faced the worst week of his political life; now Gordon Brown is getting to know what it means.
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25 Apr 08
PETER WILBY | Gordon Brown, in the end, did enough to buy off the backbench revolt over the abolition of the 10p tax band, which had threatened a Commons defeat and even an early exit from Number...
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18 Apr 08
MIKE THATCHER | In politics, as in comedy, timing is everything. And timing, as we know, is not Gordon Brown’s strong suit.
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18 Apr 08
VICTORIA MACDONALD | General practitioners are, on the whole, a conservative (with a small ‘c’) bunch.
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11 Apr 08
MIKE THATCHER | Another day, another prophecy of economic woe. This time it was the International Monetary Fund delivering the bad news, announcing this week that it has cut its UK economic growth...
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11 Apr 08
PETER RIDDELL | Immigration is the most sensitive issue in British politics: the hardest to handle and potentially the most explosive electorally.
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4 Apr 08
MIKE THATCHER | If the morale of public sector workers slips any lower, it will be Prime Minister Gordon Brown who requires the flak jacket rather than Harriet Harman.
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4 Apr 08
MELISSA BENN | The past week has been dominated by the C-words: Carla, of course — all demure, gazelle-eyed feminine silence. The credit crunch, and associated financial insecurity, continues....
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28 Mar 08
MIKE THATCHER | Gordon Brown is a Scot who is proud to be British. He believes in British workers for British jobs and is scathing of those who threaten the Union.
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28 Mar 08
PHILIP JOHNSTONE | Whisper it if you dare, but just over a month from now Boris Johnson could be mayor of London with the biggest personal mandate of any western European politician other than the...
19 Jun 08PHILIP JOHNSTONE | How often have we read stories over the past ten years or so that promised populist measures in the field of criminal justice, garnered a few favourable headlines for their...
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