Perhaps it felt epochal simply because a figure as politically dominant as Boris Johnson was leaving, but this week’s PMQs felt like a kind of passing, as well as a chance for a new beginning. This was the end of our weekly appointments with boisterous baloney; a big boring kind of banality and a damning indictment of what’s wrong with politics. It also turns the mind to what comes next.
Years of budget deficits have bloated the government’s debt pile
All developed economies face the same problem: how to manage the ever-rising tide of welfare and medical spending.
