Breaking the Code: Westminster Diaries by Gyles Brandreth

Author:Gyles Brandreth [Brandreth, Gyles]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs, Political Science, General, Historical
ISBN: 9781849548182
Google: 6uufBAAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00NNYSNMW
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Published: 2014-09-29T00:00:00+00:00

MONDAY 16 JANUARY 1995

Small lunch with the PM at No. 10. I sat immediately opposite him. He was in good form, feels the year’s got off to the right start, sensed he’d scored a few points in his Frost interview. He thinks we’ve got Labour on the ropes over devolution. And Blair is vowing to renationalise the railways which could be useful. The PM has high hopes of Norman Blackwell.455 ‘He’s fizzing with ideas.’ And he’s asked key departments to set up policy groups to develop radical new thinking ‘right across the whole range of government’. By the summer he wants to have the makings of ‘a new manifesto for the new millennium’. ‘And, as well as general themes, I want some bite-sized chunks of policy voters can get their teeth into.’

When I report the PM’s turn of phrase to Stephen he winces. ‘We’re forty points behind in the polls! It’s going to take more than “bite-sized chunks of policy” to turn the tide.’ It is going to fall to me to organise the national heritage ‘policy’ group. (Yes, it’s that unimportant.)

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