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...stephen.bush@ft.com...
...b) The majority she had inherited was too small to deliver Brexit. c) Any election in which the Labour party was led by Jeremy Corbyn was a massive gimme....
...The Labour leadership is obsessed with demonstrating a), while the Conservative leadership appears to have put very little thought into how to go about avoiding b). If anything, quite the reverse....
Tory party’s Plan B to sway the electorate involves attacking Labour’s spending plans
...So I think the problem with levelling up is A, it hasn’t delivered much but B, it’s so linked with those other issues: crime and also the cost of living, right?...
...These tax policies meant that Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves could say that Labour’s various spending pledges were both a) fully funded and b) wouldn’t involve touching the politically contentious taxes,...
...The depth of support for these policies on the opposition benches is one reason why they will a) pass into law and b) come with the risk of a large Tory rebellion....
...Signal failure The reason why computers are — or at least, are to me — an exciting tool in public policy is that we a) know that computers make mistakes and b) it is possible to understand, eventually,...
...I continue to think that a spring election is a) in the interests of the Conservative party and b) very unlikely for a number of reasons....
...But the golden thread that links everything it is planning to do is that a) it costs nothing and b) it sounds more impressive than it is....
...on the grounds that a) the upward pressures on UK public spending, from our ageing population to the industrial disputes across the public realm to the darkening geopolitical picture are not going away b)...
...All in all, it’s as if Oppenheimer were made a) without any mention of the Manhattan project and b) by someone who thought the most important things about J Robert Oppenheimer were that he slept around and...
...Emma Jacobs is work and careers writer at the FT and Stephen Bush is an FT columnist and associate editor....
...The Tory right aren’t buying Sunak’s plan B, are they?...
...When Democrats were in the White House — starting with Franklin D Roosevelt and then under John F Kennedy, Lyndon B Johnson, Bill Clinton, and even Barack Obama — they favoured internationalist policies,...
...It’s the group of voters who a) backed the Tory party in 2019 but b) now say they either don’t know how they will vote, will not vote or will vote Reform at a general election....
...The nature of policing in a world with guns is that a) there will be fatal shootings and b) some of those shootings will require investigation not just by the police ombudsman but in a court of law....
...Liberal Democrats vow to knock down Tory ‘blue wall’ in the south of England Why the Lib Dem’s Ed Davy doesn’t use the B-word Greater Manchester mayor proposes compromise on HS2 rail line Suella Braverman...
...Lucy FisherAnd the FT’s Stephen Bush. Hi, Stephen. Stephen BushHi, Lucy....
...It’s more the fundamentals,” said Bob McNally, president of consultancy Rapidan Energy and a former energy adviser to George W Bush....
...We are fast coming up on the summer parliamentary recess, when this email will either a) be taken up by some kind of political crisis that we don’t expect or more likely b) take on a more discursive flavour...
...Stephen Bush So, well, George is exactly right then....
...Yet both Gullis and Berry are calling for measures that would a) cost a lot of money and b) completely defeat the purpose of the Bank of England’s rate rises....
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