"Young governments inevitably make mistakes, as the transport secretary, Louise Haigh, rightly said last week. Unfortunately, she then proved it, being publicly slapped down by Downing Street for denouncing ferry company P&O as rogue operators who deserved boycotting for their record of firing crew and replacing them with cheaper agency workers."
"For those thinking that things like this never happened to Blair, all I can say is memory plays strange tricks. His first hundred days are now remembered as a triumph, but towards the tail end he failed to win a byelection in Uxbridge, triggered uproar by giving fundraiser Michael Levy a peerage, and almost lost his foreign secretary, Robin Cook, to the fallout from the latter's extramarital affair."
Collection
[
|
...
]