But will Dave and Nick try to tough it out? One betting market where you can bet on the future of David Laws is the PoliticalSmarkets one on Who will be the first cabinet member to leave? There has been a bit of movement overnight but currently you can get a price of 17% that Laws will be first to go. Speculation about what might happen to the Treasury Secretary has yet to put him into the favourite slot –…
Are Sir Humphrey & co once again running the country? One thing that struck me on reading through the coalition document published yesterday is just how well written it is. This is not something that has been produced by a committee and does not read like the usual product of a negotiation. Some well-thought out and serious drafting has taken place with a superb economy of words. You have to admire, for instance, the way that conflicting policies between the…
How long is the coalition going to last? Under the headline – “David Cameron takes on Tory back-bench ‘awkward squad” the second story on the Telegraph’s front page is about what is described as an audacious attempt by Cameron “to stamp his authority on Conservative MPs and smother back-bench dissent.” For while his partner in the coalition, Nick Clegg, has gone to great lengths to bring and keep the Lib Dems on board the Cameron style is much more ruthless…