Prime minister says he wants to establish new way of working that is ‘different and better’ than under previous governments
Michael Howard, the former Tory leader, is one of the guests on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. Asked about his party’s landslide defeat, he says governing parties all over the world are being punished. But he accepts that it contributed to its own defeat by some of the things it did. (He does no say what.) But he says he wants the new government to succeed, because “their successes will be our successes”.
It sounds like he has been rereading the letter George Bush wrote to Bill Clinton after Clinton beat him in the 1992 US presidential election – which is the model for a gracious message from a loser to a winner in politics.
Continue reading… The Guardian Read More Prime minister says he wants to establish new way of working that is ‘different and better’ than under previous governmentsMichael Howard, the former Tory leader, is one of the guests on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. Asked about his party’s landslide defeat, he says governing parties all over the world are being punished. But he accepts that it contributed to its own defeat by some of the things it did. (He does no say what.) But he says he wants the new government to succeed, because “their successes will be our successes”.It sounds like he has been rereading the letter George Bush wrote to Bill Clinton after Clinton beat him in the 1992 US presidential election – which is the model for a gracious message from a loser to a winner in politics. Continue reading…
