All of which is to say, this has costs, for us in HE sure, but also for business, medicine, finance, tech, arts and entertainment, pharmaceuticals. The industries that this country is a world leader in. And if you cannot fathom why this uncertainty is a problem then you are not fit to govern.

It really is a spectacularly bad piece even by his standards.

The Labour 2001 manifesto promised large increases in spending. Welfare spending as a proportion of GDP is only fractionally higher now. And asylum claim numbers were similar too.

It's you that's changed Matthew...

Another week, another shouty Reform announcement followed by an angry Farage climbdown. It's almost as though it was a strategy.

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