The vacation habits of the shadow cabinet are under discussion today principally because everyone thinks that one holidaying member will soon have much more time on his hands. But Alistair Darling’s remarks in the FT today are actually more worthy of comment. Asked about the delay in launching loan guarantee scheme for small businesses, Darling replies:
Darling’s answer rather gives the lie to Brown’s attempt to give the impression of constant, war-time levels of activity in government.“I announced this on the 24th November, and if you take out the two weeks in Decmeber, when it is more difficult to do things, I think people will see that we have as quickly as we can”
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