Tag: Mervyn King

Maybe, just maybe – again!

Day One for the new Prime Minister and his team has been good!

Less than 24 hours ago, I mused that maybe David Cameron and Nick Clegg represented something that the UK badly needs – a real positive change in Governing the country.

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Matthew Parris

Matthew Parris is an experienced reporter, columnist and a one-time Conservative Member of Parliament.  Here’s what he said to the BBC a short while ago (at the time of writing this Post).

“I ought to be cynical, I ought to be saying it’s all going to end in tears, but I just sense something good and genuine in the air and it just might work,”

“You almost have a sense of two men staging a coup against the British political system,”

Spring shoot 2

It’s almost unknown for the Governor of the Bank of England to comment on political matters.  The current Governor, Mervyn King, was recorded saying this today.

By Paul Handover