It’s one thing to have one or two ex-PMs pottering about, providing historical perspective. A whole gang of them is a different story.
Daily Briefing: Keir Starmer has pledged to oversee the “biggest ever transfer of power from Westminster to the British people” if Labour wins the next general election.
Both men forgot that, to large parts of the population, today’s benefit becomes tomorrow’s entitlement. And now for the bill.
Perhaps most striking of all the proposed reforms is the modern day throwing of rotten tomatoes at politicians in the stocks.
If former PMs are anything to go by, the answer is money, memoirs and the odd good cause.
Gordon Brown’s intervention represents a serious contribution to the energy debate but his concluding arguments are flawed. He is identifying the wrong villain.
Daily Briefing: Industry leaders have pledged “to do more to help the people who most need it.” But we’re still waiting on the details.
In the fifth hustings, the Tory leader candidate accused parts of the media of trying to “talk our country down”.
This monday marks the 25th anniversary of the general election landslide on 1 May 1997, when Tony Blair became Prime Minister.
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