Chris Patten appears on the last ever edition of Straight Talk with Andrew Neil in the
early hours of Saturday. The coalition is Patten’s type of politics: socially liberal and economically neoliberal. He describes the government’s frenzy of legislation as
‘breathless’, but accepts that is understandable as it attempts to introduce a zealous reform agenda at the start of its term.
David Blackburn
A zeal for reform is what Labour is missing

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