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Goldsmith-Gummer report is headed for the recycling bin

Fraser Nelson 4:15pm

I have a bit of good news for James (and Iain Dale).  Zac won’t be listened to. I understand that of the six policy review groups, the favourites of the Cameroon leadership are the social justice and competitiveness report (by IDS and John Redwood respectively). The others are not considered to have much meat in them – and lots of gunk which will be discreetly spat out. The education group, for example, has apparently failed to give a proper examination to the school choice agenda , perhaps the biggest public service revolution in the world right now. And the Tory NHS agenda has preceded the health review (which didn’t have much original to say anyway). “We have to be careful; a lot of good people have spent many hours on this,” one shadow cabinet member tells me. “But it would be a mistake for anyone to view them as a proxy for Tory policy”. So the Gummer-Goldsmith idea to stop airport expansion will be filed where it belongs - in the recyling bin.

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Perry

August 29th, 2007 4:23pm Report this comment

Aw, - Shucks! And after all that waiting!

Hannibal

August 30th, 2007 11:35am Report this comment

Phew, and here was me thinking I'd have to go off at the deep end like Iain Dale! Good to see that even readers of the Independent can see sense on this one: http://ybfblog.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/letter-of-the-day-3/ Sums up the problem with many university scientists.

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