4. BBC News, 1 February 2012
5. James Browne, ‘The 50p income tax rate’, Institute for Fiscal Studies (2012); Ganesh, George Osborne, p. 283
6. Interview, Julian Astle
7. Interview, Nick Clegg
8. Tim Montgomerie, ‘Tories should support more property taxes if proceeds are used to cut other, more harmful taxes’, http://conservativehomeblogs.com, 29 August 2012
9. Interview, Nick Clegg
10. Interview, Julian Astle
11. Interview, Danny Alexander
12. Hansard, 21 March 2012, column 810
13. Interview, George Osborne
14. Guardian, 28 August 2012
15. Interview, George Osborne
16. Daily Telegraph, 28 March 2012
17. Financial Times, 6 March 2012
18. BBC News, 23 April 2012
19. Interview, George Osborne
20. BBC News, 29 May 2012
21. Guardian, 7 June 2012
22. Interview, Andrew Cooper
23. Interview, Danny Alexander
Chapter 18
1. Interview, Lord Feldman
2. Guardian, 4 September 2011
3. David Cameron, Twitter, 6 July 2014
4. The Times, 25 February 2015
5. Interview, Ed Llewellyn
6. Daily Telegraph, 26 July 2012
7. BBC Radio 4, Under Attack: The Threat from Cyberspace, 8 July 2013
8. BBC News, 31 December 1999
9. Daily Telegraph, 30 July 2012
10. Guardian, 3 September 2012
11. Ibid.
12. Interview, George Osborne
13. Interview, Lord Feldman
14. Interview, Iain Duncan Smith
15. Ibid.
Chapter 19
1. YouGov, 27 June 2012
2. Politico, 27 October 2011
3. Conservative Manifesto (2010), p. 67
4. Liberal Democrat Manifesto (2010), p. 88
5. BBC Radio 4, The Liberal Who Came to Power, 17 February 2014
6. The Coalition: Our Programme for Government (2010), p. 27
7. Interview, Oliver Letwin
8. The Times, 27 June 2012
9. Guardian website, 27 June 2012
10. Jesse Norman, Observer, 1 July 2012
11. Ibid.
12. Interview, Lord Strathclyde
13. Interview, Julian Astle
14. Guardian website, 6 July 2012
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
18. ITV Meridian News, 9 July 2012
19. Interview, Jonny Oates
20. The Times website, 9 July 2012
21. Hansard, 10 July 2012, column 188
22. BBC News, 11 July 2012
23. Matthew d’Ancona, In It Together: The Inside Story of the Coalition Government (2013), p. 288
24. Nick Clegg statement, BBC News, 6 August 2012
25. Interview, Liam Fox
26. The Coalition: Our Programme for Government, p. 27
27. Interview, Nick Clegg
28. Interview, Julian Astle
29. Interview, Jonny Oates
30. Interview, Lena Pietsch
31. Interview, Lord Feldman
32. Interview, William Hague
33. Interview, Nick Clegg
34. Interview, Oliver Letwin
35. The Coalition: Together in the National Interest (2013), p. 6
Chapter 20
1. Sunday Times, 23 December 2012
2. Guardian, 28 November 2014
3. The Times, 26 September 2012
4. Guardian, 26 September 2012
5. MailOnline, 30 September 2012
6. Interview, Andrew Cooper
7. Matthew d’Ancona, In It Together: The Inside Story of the Coalition Government (2013), p. 299
8. Ibid.
9. Interview, Matthew Hancock
10. Interview, Andrew Cooper
11. Interview, David Cameron
12. Interview, Kate Fall
13. Interview, Lord Feldman
14. Daily Mail, 11 October 2012
15. Independent on Sunday, 21 October 2012
16. ComRes, ibid.
17. Sunday Times, 21 October 2012
18. Daily Telegraph, 27 July 2012
19. Interview, Oliver Letwin
20. Forecast Evaluation Report, OBR, 16 October 2012, p. 8
21. Interview, Danny Alexander
22. Guardian website, 5 December 2012
Chapter 21
1. Financial Times, 13 January 2014
2. Evening Standard, 16 January 2013
3. Coalition Agreement, p. 19
4. Guardian website, 29 June 2012
5. Ibid.
6. Sunday Telegraph, 1 July 2012
7. Guido Fawkes website, 28 June 2012
8. Letter from David Cameron to John Baron, 18 September 2012, https://html1-f.scribdassets.com/f6wos38sg1uedld/images/1-0529bb1be2.jpg
9. BBC News, 31 October 2012
10. Ibid.
11. Stefan Kornelius, Angela Merkel: The Authorized Biography (translated 2013), Kindle edition 3284
12. Ibid.
13. Interview, Ken Clarke
14. Interview, Graham Brady
15. Private information
16. Interview, David Cameron
17. Hansard, 23 January 2013, columns 304–5
18. Ibid., column 306
19. See Anthony Seldon, Major: A Political Life, 1997
20. Guardian website, 14 February 2013
21. Daily Telegraph, 9 February 2013; Guardian, 9 February 2013
22. Daily Telegraph, 13 May 2013
23. Interview, Owen Paterson
24. Interview, Ken Clarke
25. The Times, 7 May 2013
26. BBC News, 15 May 2013
27. Ibid., 29 October 2014
28. Guardian, 7 November 2013
Chapter 22
1. Guardian, 4 October 2005
2. Interview, Steve Hilton
3. Guardian, 4 October 2006
4. David Cameron, Downing Street reception, 9 April 2014
5. YouGov, 13 June 2012
6. BBC Radio 4, Today, 2 September 2011
7. Pink News, 28 November 2013
8. Guardian, 5 October 2011
9. Interview, Andrew Cooper
10. Channel 4 News, 15 March 2012
11. www.c4m.org.uk, 15 March 2012
12. Matthew d’Ancona, Evening Standard, 30 May 2012
13. Daily Telegraph, 28 May 2012
14. Ibid., 6 October 2012
15. Interview, Alan Duncan
16. Interview, Laurence Mann
17. George Osborne, ‘Obama proves you can win in tough times’, The Times, 13 November 2012
18. Daily Telegraph, 10 December 2012
19. Matthew d’Ancona, In It Together: The Inside Story of the Coalition Government (2013), p. 310
20. Ibid., p. 311
21. Ibid., p. 313
22. Gary Gibbon, Channel 4 politics blog, 6 February 2013
23. Daily Telegraph, 5 February 2013
24. New York Times, 6 February 2013
25. Interview, Graham Brady
26. Interview, Phillip Blond
27. New York Times, 6 February 2013
28. BBC News, 5 March 2013
29. Interview, Liam Fox
30. Daily Telegraph, 20 May 2013
31. Ibid., 25 May 2013
32. Daily Mail, 4 June 2013
33. Gibbon, Channel 4 politics blog, 4 June 2013
34. Guardian, 16 July 2013
35. David Cameron, 2013 Party Conference Speech, 2 October 2013
36. Pink News, 28 March 2014
37. Ibid.
38. Ibid., 15 July 2013
39. Interview, David Cameron
Chapter 23
1. Paul Goodman, Daily Telegraph, 29 December 2012
2. BBC Poll Tracker, 20 January 2015
3. Martin Ive
ns, Sunday Times, 9 September 2012
4. Spectator, 6 October 2012
5. Guardian, 7 October 2012
6. Ibid.
7. BBC News, 27 November 2012
8. Interview, Lord Feldman
9. Guardian, 18 November 2012
10. Observer, 21 July 2013; Sonia Purnell, Just Boris (2012)
11. Interview, Lynton Crosby
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Matthew d’Ancona, In It Together: The Inside Story of the Coalition Government (2013), p. 231
15. The Times website, 12 June 2013
16. Mail on Sunday, 14 April 2013
17. BBC News, 12 July 2013
18. Sky, 12 July 2013
19. Guardian website, 12 July 2013
20. Sunday Times, 3 November 2013
21. Interview, Lynton Crosby
22. David Cameron, CBI Speech 2013, 4 November 2013
23. Interview, Lynton Crosby
24. ComRes, Guardian, 12 December 2014
Chapter 24
1. Interview, Iain Duncan Smith
2. Ipsos MORI poll, 12 July 2013
3. Philip Collins, The Times, 28 November 2014
4. Peter Oborne, Daily Telegraph, 16 February 2015
5. Iain Duncan Smith and Graham Allen, Early Intervention: Good Parents. Great Kids. Better Citizens, Centre for Social Justice (2008)
6. Stephen Brien, Dynamic Benefits: Towards welfare that works, Centre for Social Justice (2009)
7. Interview, Iain Duncan Smith
8. Daily Mail, 11 January 2015
9. 2010 Spending Review, p. 68
10. BBC News, 11 January 2015
11. David Cameron, Sun, 1 February 2012
12. See Chapter 18
13. Daily Mail, 13 November 2011
14. Press release, the Trussell Trust, 16 October 2013, http://www.trusselltrust.org/foodbank-numbers-triple
15. BBC News, 20 February 2014
16. Ruby Stockham, Left Foot Forward, 4 July 2015
17. Journal of Public Heath, ‘A Qualitative Study of the “Bedroom Tax”’, 15 March 2015
18. National Housing Federation, 27 May 2014
19. Interview, Philippa Stroud
20. Interview, Iain Duncan Smith
21. Interview, Lord Kerslake
22. Interview, Philippa Stroud
23. Peter Oborne, ‘With Universal Credit, Work Might Finally Pay’, Daily Telegraph, 15 February 2014
24. Matthew d’Ancona, In It Together: The Inside Story of the Coalition Government (2013), pp. 86–98; Matthew d’Ancona, ‘The reinvention of Iain Duncan Smith: is he the man to save the Tories?’, Guardian, 15 February 2015
25. Gov.uk, ‘Plans Advanced for Accelerated Roll-out of Universal Credit After Success in North-West’, 29 September 2014
26. National Audit Office, ‘Departmental Overview: The Performance of the Department for Work and Pensions 2013–14’, 28 October 2014
27. Interview, Oliver Letwin
Chapter 25
1. Interview, George Osborne
2. Interview, Rupert Harrison
3. Channel 4 News, 25 January 2013
4. The Economist, 23 February 2013
5. Vince Cable, New Statesman, 6 March 2013
6. Matthew d’Ancona, In It Together: The Inside Story of the Coalition Government (2013), p. 336
7. Interview, George Osborne
8. Interview, Oliver Letwin
9. d’Ancona, In It Together, p. 336
10. Hansard, 20 March 2013, columns 947–9
11. Daily Mail, 21 March 2013; The Times, 21 March 2013; Daily Telegraph, 21 March 2013
12. Sky News, 16 April 2013
13. Guardian, 19 April 2013
14. Guardian, 20 March 2013
15. BBC HARDtalk, 9 August 2012
16. Bank of England, Forward Guidance press release, 7 August 2013
17. ONS, Gross Domestic Product Preliminary Estimate, Q1 2013, 25 April 2013
18. BBC News, 27 June 2013
19. George Osborne, Mansion House Speech 2013, 19 June 2013
20. ONS, Gross Domestic Product Preliminary Estimate, Q2 2013, 25 July 2013
21. The Times, 23 August 2013
22. Independent, 20 August 2013
23. Financial Times, 8 October 2013
24. ONS, Gross Domestic Product Second Estimate, Q4 2013, 26 February 2014; Financial Times, 6 June 2014
Chapter 26
1. Bloomberg, 8 April 2013
2. Gov.uk press release, ‘Death of Lady Thatcher’, 8 April 2014
3. Francis Elliott and James Hanning, Cameron: Practically a Conservative (2012), p. 68
4. Ibid., pp. 91–2
5. BBC News, 13 September 2007
6. Anthony Seldon, Major (1997), pp. 252–5, 325–8
7. Simon Heffer, lecture, Wellington College, 9 March 2015
8. Interview, Vernon Bogdanor
9. Interview, William Hague
10. Peter Snowdon, Back from the Brink: The Extraordinary Rise and Fall of the Conservative Party (2010), p. 214
11. Interview, David Cameron
12. BBC News, 17 April 2013
13. Sunday Times, 28 April 2013
14. Hansard, 10 April 2013, columns 1,613–16
15. Ibid., columns 1,616–17
16. Guardian website, 13 April 2013
17. Guardian, 17 April 2013
Chapter 27
1. Médecins San Frontières, press release, 24 August 2013; Al Arabiya News, 21 August 2013
2. BBC News, 24 September 2013
3. ‘The Opposition Advances in Damascus’, Institute for the Study of War, 9 August 2013
4. Daily Telegraph, 15 September 2013
5. Foreign Policy, 6 December 2012; Time,18 September 2012
6. Daily Telegraph, 10 August 2012
7. BBC News, 20 November 2012
8. Daily Telegraph, 10 November 2012
9. Guardian, 12 November 2012
10. David Richards, Taking Command (2014), Kindle version 76%
11. Interview, Sir David Richards
12. Richards, Taking Command, Kindle version 77%
13. CNN, 23 January 2013
14. BBC News, 15 March 2013
15. Early Day Motion 189, 5 June 2013
16. The Week, 17 June 2013
17. Sunday Times, 16 June 2013
18. Gov.uk, ‘The 2013 UK G8 Presidency’
19. Daily Telegraph, 20 August 2012
20. Interview, Nick Clegg
21. ‘Chemical Weapon Use by Syrian Regime: UK Government Legal Position’, 29 August 2013
22. Interview, Ken Clarke
23. Ibid.
24. https://twitter.com/david_cameron/status/372321743064793088
25. BBC Radio 4, The Syria Vote: One Day in August, 10 November 2014
26. Sun, 28 August 2013
27. BBC Radio 4, The Syria Vote: One Day in August, 10 November 2014
28. Interview, Nick Clegg
29. LA Times website, 28 August 2013
30. The Times, 29 August 2013
31. Daily Telegraph, 28 August 2013
32. The Times, 29 August 2013
33. Interview, Nick Boles
34. Interview, Nick Clegg
35. Interview, Michael Gove
36. Hansard, 29 August 2013, columns 1,425–39
37. Ibid., column 1,555
38. Guardian, 30 August 2013
39. BBC News, 4 September 2013
40. Ibid.
41. BBC Radio 4, The Syria Vote: One Day in August, 10 November 2014
42. Interview, Laurence Mann
43. CNN News, 31 August 2013
44. Spectator, 29 August 2013
45. The Times, 30 August 2013
46. Time magazine website, 30 August 2013
47. The Economist, 30 August 2013
48. Interview, William Hague
49. Interview, Julian Astle
50. Anthony Seldon, Diary, 1 Septe
mber 2013
51. Washington Times, 30 August 2013
52. Associated Press, 1 September 2013
53. LA Times, 14 September 2013
Chapter 28
1. Patrick O’Flynn, Daily Express, 20 August 2011
2. Mail on Sunday, 29 September 2013
3. Spectator, 2 October 2013
4. David Cameron, Conservative Party conference speech, 2 October 2013
5. Interview, Lynton Crosby
6. David Cameron, Conservative Party conference speech, 2 October 2013
7. Julian Glover, ‘The Coalition and Infrastructure’, in Anthony Seldon and Mike Finn (eds), The Coalition Effect, 2010–2015 (2015), p. 214
8. Ibid., pp. 210–11
9. The Coalition: Our Programme for Government (Cabinet Office, 2010), pp. 14, 16, 31
10. Financial Times, 20 August 2013, cited in Glover, ‘The Coalition and Infrastructure’, op. cit., p. 219
11. www.crossrail.co.uk/about-us/funding (accessed 29.05.2015)
12. The Times, 19 March 2012
13. Richard Wellings, Failure to Transform: High-speed Rail and the Regeneration Myth, IEA Current Controversies Paper No. 48, April 2014
14. Interview, Patrick McLoughlin
15. Ibid.
16. Richmond and Twickenham Times, 21 October 2009
17. Hansard, 5 December 2013, column 1,101
18. Interview, George Osborne
19. Hansard, 5 December 2013, column 1,102
20. Interview, Rupert Harrison
21. David Cameron, 6 December 2013
22. Daily Telegraph, 15 December 2013
23. Interview, Owen Paterson
24. BBC News, 28 June 2012
25. Guardian website, 27 December 2013
26. Ibid., 5 February 2014
27. Daily Telegraph, 10 February 2014
28. Interview, Owen Paterson
29. BBC, The Andrew Marr Show, 9 February 2014
Chapter 29
1. Daily Telegraph, 12 May 2010
2. Daily Mail, 15 May 2012
3. Guardian, 25 May 2012
4. Independent, 7 May 2013
5. Hansard, 8 May 2013, column 22
6. Daily Telegraph, 28 June 2013
7. Financial Times, 14 October 2014
8. BBC News, 3 December 2013
9. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, 23 March 2015
10. Gov.uk, ‘UK and China agree £14 billion of trade and investment deals’, 17 June 2014
11. Daily Telegraph, 14 January 2015
12. Financial Times, 27 October 2014
13. Irish Times, 29 November 2013
14. BBC News, 1 December 2010
15. Ibid., 12 September 2011
16. Reuters, 2 August 2012
17. BBC News, 12 February 2015
18. Time, 20 March 2014
19. Interview, Ed Llewellyn
20. Private information
21. Michael Clarke, ‘The Coalition and Foreign Policy’, in Anthony Seldon and Mike Finn (eds), The Coalition Effect, 2010–2015 (2015), p. 360
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