It’s intriguing that Labour put serious economic folk in posts like Chancellor, while the tories have lawyers, salespeople, journalists and so on - yet the tories always take the line that they are the ones to be trusted with the economy. And people fail for their crap, or did …
Hunt set up and sold a successful business didn’t he? I wouldn’t bracket Clarke with lightweight Dowden and Osborne was at least proved right by arguing strongly against holding an EU referendum. I would go back further to Barber and Maudling.
Maudling? He left the economy in a right old state. Didn’t he do an early version of Truss, which also went badly wrong? Setting up and running a business doesn’t mean you can run an economy - Peter Thiel, Musk, etc?
It’s intriguing that Labour put serious economic folk in posts like Chancellor, while the tories have lawyers, salespeople, journalists and so on - yet the tories always take the line that they are the ones to be trusted with the economy. And people fail for their crap, or did …
Define serious economic folk. I don’t think Martin Wolf, Chris Giles and The rest of the FT economics team are available!
Well - not Ken Clarke, Jeremy Hunt, Osborne, Dowden etc etc
Hunt set up and sold a successful business didn’t he? I wouldn’t bracket Clarke with lightweight Dowden and Osborne was at least proved right by arguing strongly against holding an EU referendum. I would go back further to Barber and Maudling.
Maudling? He left the economy in a right old state. Didn’t he do an early version of Truss, which also went badly wrong? Setting up and running a business doesn’t mean you can run an economy - Peter Thiel, Musk, etc?