mid-term review
How the mid-term review didn’t quite hit the spot
Bearing in mind that the mid-term review was originally conceived as means of boosting Coalition morale after the collapse of Lords reform, it hasn’t done enormously well. With two more… Continue reading
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The coalition’s half-time score
Yesterday, the coalition released its mid-term self-assessment, comparing the commitments made in its Programme for Government back in May 2010 to the policies it has actually implemented to date. Sadly,… Continue reading
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PMQs sketch: Labour unleashes Operation Starving Kiddie
Seemed a good idea at the time. Ed Miliband decided that the progress report published by the Coalition is a ‘secret audit’. At today’s PMQs he accused Cameron of sneaking… Continue reading
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Secret audit of Coalition pledges offers few clues on progress
Finally, the copper-bottomed, unvarnished Programme for Government Update, aka the Secret Audit, has landed. You can read the full document here, but in summary, it’s not immediately very helpful. It… Continue reading
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PMQs: Leaders trade dull insults as Andrew Mitchell holds court
No one could call today’s PMQs illuminating. Ed Miliband led on the whole embarrassment of a Downing Street aide being snapped with a memo about whether to release a full… Continue reading
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Copper-bottoming the Coalition
Number 10 officials have been working on the mid-term review since the autumn, with what the Prime Minister’s spokesman described today as a ‘long-term intention’ to publish the awkward annex.… Continue reading
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Unpublished Mid-Term Review annex acknowledges Coalition failures
The Coalition’s decision to publish a Mid-Term review reminded some of Tony Blair’s ill-fated annual reports, which strangely stopped appearing after 2000. Blair’s last report embarrassed him because it contained… Continue reading
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Is the boundary Black Swan dead?
One of the amusing inclusions in yesterday’s otherwise anodyne Mid-Term review document was the promise that the government ‘will provide for a vote in the House of Commons on the… Continue reading
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Briefing: What does the Mid-Term Review say the Government is going to do?
The coalition has worked very hard, taken tough decisions, worked in the long-term interest of the country for short-term political gain. That, if you can’t summon the energy to read… Continue reading
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Fisking the coalition’s deficit-reduction boast
‘We have reduced the deficit by a quarter in just two years’ — the coalition’s mid-term review. True. But when Gordon Brown proposed to do precisely the same in Labour’s… Continue reading
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David Cameron and Nick Clegg’s joint foreword to the Mid-Term Review
Two and a half years ago, our parties came together in the national interest and formed a coalition at a time of real economic danger. The deficit was spiralling out… Continue reading
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While the Coalition celebrates proalition, the two parties are still making their differences public
The Coalition reaches its proalition peak today with the publication of the mid-term review, but Downing Street strategists are keen to spin out the good feeling for as long as… Continue reading
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The coalition’s next big test
With the political dust settling from the autumn statement, attention in Whitehall is turning to the mid-term review. The mid-term review is the last chance for the coalition to embark… Continue reading
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David Cameron reads blog comments
The Cameron/Clegg press conference did not teach us very much — save that the chemistry between the two is as good as ever, that they can still finish each other’s… Continue reading
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