Articles tagged with 'James Forsyth'
Reform needs nitty gritty detail
“Cameron needs to put more emphasis on planning for the medium term, on the nitty gritty of how his reforms are implemented”, writes the Spectator's James Forsyth.
Here’s just such a plan to make those decentralising, localist changes happen. Or here and here [...]
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Eurosceptic talk is easy. But what will ministers actually do?
It seems that you cannot deliver a localist agenda, and decentralise power in Britain, while we remain part of the top down, technocratic EU project. That, at least, seems to be the conclusion drawn by whoever in government has been briefing James Forsyth at the Mail on Sunday.
And they are spot on.
Those [...]
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The Tories and Change
I started the blog post earlier in the week but didn’t get time to finish it. The announcement of the “Vote for Change” message has spurred me on to retrieve it from the bin and finish it.
James Forsyth’s fascinating piece about the Tory ‘dead shark’ dilemma confirms to me that [...]
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Are the Tories thinking the unthinkable?
IF YOU can put to one side your (and my) partiality for a second, let’s have a look at what’s happening to the Conservatives at the moment.
However far ahead they are in the polls, no-one doubts that the gap has narrowed in recent weeks. Labour’s hope is that that trend [...]
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