Liberal commentators can no longer use the former Chancellor as a stick with which to beat British Prime Ministers.
Fifty-eight per cent of our panel takes a negative view of the former, and 93 per cent a positive view of the latter.
The total of those who believe that it isn’t has drifted up by only four points – despite the war.
As Blair realised, but his successor apparently does not, hysterical denunciations of political leaders are liable to prove counter-productive.
The PM refuses to be rancorous. One might as well try to get Bertie Wooster to take a dim view of that beano last night at the Drones Club.
My instinct last week was that he tried too hard to please the Tory press. Nothing’s that’s happened since has suggested otherwise.
Polling suggests that the Prime Minister’s attitude is very similar to that of the general public.
“Cutting taxes is not easy,” the Chancellor said with a sigh. It is, however, easier than putting them up.
At a time of pressure on public spending, delivering efficiency savings is especially important.
With 1.5 billion people estimated to be tuning in, the Games will be a fantastic opportunity for my region – and the economic benefits are already apparent.
For Johnson to discuss decisions bilaterally with ministers on WhatsApp without telling anyone and regularly backtrack undermines his own office.
This move also stems from the primary objective of post-war British foreign policy: keeping in with the Americans.
Rayner, standing in for Starmer, insisted in a shocked tone that the absent Prime Minister had consumed champagne and caviar.
Harry Potter’s creator is a natural rebel who likes nothing better than a good fight.