Showing posts with label Philip Hammond. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Philip Hammond. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Norman Lamb on his time as a minister... and Danny Alexander

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Norman Lamb has been interviewed by the Institute for Government for its Ministers Reflect series. You can see a short clip from it above an...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Six of the Best 827

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"Hammond presented a narrative that explained who the Tories were, what they had done and where they were going that was fathomable a...
Monday, October 29, 2018

MP: Hammond must 'wake up and smell the coffee' on beer tax

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Not for the first time, the Shropshire Star wins our Headline of the Day Award. You may not be too astounded to learn that the metaph...
Sunday, November 19, 2017

Philip Hammond's "gaffe" this morning shows what is wrong with political reporting

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Embed from Getty Images What do we want our politicians to be like? I would rather like it if they were prepared occasionally to raise t...
Friday, October 13, 2017

Philip Hammond should remember who his real enemy is

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Embed from Getty Images It may have been a slip of the tongue or it may have been an attempt to placate the headbangers who now dictate Co...
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Friday, September 29, 2017

Henry Bolton, Ukip's new leader, stood against Philip Hammond for the Lib Dems in 2005

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One of the few things the press has been able to discover about Ukip's new leader today is that he is a former Liberal Democrat parli...
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Saturday, July 15, 2017

Behind the facade of Conservative unity it's ferrets-in-a-sack time

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Embed from Getty Images Politics Home says Theresa May’s enemies plan to challenge her leadership in the week after the Conservat...
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Thursday, May 11, 2017

Tensions between May and Hammond mean the government is neither strong nor stable

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Embed from Getty Images What makes a government weak and unstable? Tensions between the prime minister and the chancellor that...
Sunday, January 15, 2017

Philip Hammond spells out British government's Brexit thinking - to the German press

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Brexit, we Britons have been told, means Brexit and it will be red, white and blue. Beyond that, we know very little about our governme...
Saturday, November 12, 2016

Neal Ascherson: Theresa May's government is ramming through a damaging policy it doesn't believe in

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Neal Ascherson is always worth reading. Here he is in the London Review of Books on the sorry spectacle that is Theresa May's governm...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Grant Shapps' continuing problems with the internet

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In 2012 I blogged about " Grant Shapps' problems with the internet ". Judging by this afternoon's Guardian story, those p...
Friday, November 07, 2014

It is 25 years since the Berlin Wall was torn down

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#452724858 / gettyimages.com The fall of the Berlin Wall is the greatest political event of my lifetime, but what lessons should ...
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Friday, July 25, 2014

Lord Bonkers on Philip Hammond

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Lord Bonkers writes exclusively for Liberal England: "Hammond must be our least memorable Foreign Secretary since... What was that...