Asked by Sky News if he was comfortable with the Bank of England doing whatever was needed to bring down inflation, even if that could cause a recession, Hunt replied…
“Yes, because in the end, inflation is a source of instability. If we want to have prosperity, if we want to grow the economy, if we want to reduce the risk of recession, we have to support the Bank of England in the difficult decisions that they take.”
David Cameron speaking to Nick Ferrari on LBC, defending the government’s Rwanda plan:
“I have huge sympathy with the government when they say we’ve got to collapse the model of the people smugglers. And that means people who arrive through that manner shouldn’t be able to stay… I think if you don’t have a better answer to the things that the government is doing to try and stop this illegal trade, then I think there’s no point criticising.”
Harry Cole on activist Civil Servants briefing against Ministers…
“There is a tension between the Civil Servants [and Ministers] being played up by left-wing agitators like Dave Penman from the FDA, who’s clearly now an activist. He’s not your sort of standard union leader representing the poor, downtrodden pinstriped Sir Humphreys. He is a player in this, and so Ministers need to be careful. They need to know that actually, give them an inch and they will be on the front page of the Guardian…”
Juliet Samuel on talking about families…
“… speakers at last week’s National Conservatism conference were widely mocked for talking about marriage and family, on the grounds that this might exclude or shame single mothers. Even if one assumes the existence of non-nuclear families precludes talking about the benefits of conventional ones, which it shouldn’t, this misses the point. The problem isn’t single mothers; it’s men who abandon or abuse them. When some on the right talk of “bringing back shame” to contain human excess, they should be careful to make sure it is deadbeat males who are the target, not the women.”
Polly Toynbee laments how her privileged background left her without redemption…
“…to live a well-heeled life on the left is to live with inevitable hypocrisy and painful self-awareness, with good intentions always destined to fall short of ideals, social concern never enough, struggling to be good but inevitably never good enough. I hunted hard for any redeeming twig of a working-class branch of my family tree, without success. Confessing a background of privilege comes hard to the likes of us, who can claim no “merit”, no handy pulling-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps rugged path to our good professional jobs as writers, academics and teachers, set on our lucky way at a young age.”
Elon tells CNBC…
“The lap-top class is living in la-la land.”
