Surely it can’t get any worse for Boris? His core supporters in the golf clubs of the Shires must surely be outraged by the whiffy stink of scandal upon scandal. Sorry, but no. The lesson from across The Pond is that, if he’s on message in every other way and the opposition is equally loathed, it matters not. Plenty of female voters who disapproved of both Clinton and Trumps’, how shall we put it, dilettantism, voted for them anyway. No wonder Trump said “Boris is going nowhere’.
“Cut interest rates to prevent recession, says Institute of Economic Affairs’ SMPC”
The ‘lag’, ‘trailing leg’ or ‘long wake’ of any economic measure means that its effects are often felt long after the problem it was supposed to solve has disappeared. 2010’s ‘balancing the books within the space of one parliament’ (that went well, didn’t it?), austerity to you and me, is one example.