Indeed. And there is also the smaller matter of appointing Secretaries of State, Ministers and all the others on the Government payroll, only after which new detailed planning and executive decision … (View Post)

Congratulations for your prescient ramping of Burnham here at a time when it still appeared that there was not a credible route back for him and he was I think still beyond single figure odds. I now … (View Post)

Burnham's uturns seem to have been politically nimble avoiding political damage. The Uturn to achieve clean air targets in GM using electric buses without the need for a clean air zone clobberin… (View Post)

Closing off all options for their opponent to get the one thing that matters out through a narrow defended gap while sacrificing their own ability to do the same. (View Post)

Ok a couple of weeks. On checking Brown became PM 16 days after launching what turned out to be an unopposed leadership campaign. I'm not saying that it need be quite that quick. But it's t… (View Post)