22. Interview, Sir David Richards
Chapter 30
1. Interview, George Osborne
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Matthew d’Ancona, In It Together: The Inside Story of the Coalition Government (2013), p. 374
5. Martin Lewis, www.moneysavingexpert.com, 19 March 2014
6. Spending Round 2013 (HMT, 2013), p. 26; Autumn Statement 2013 (HMT, 2013), p. 7
7. Budget 2014 (HMT, 2014), p. 26
8. Hansard, 19 March 2014, column 785
9. Ibid., columns 781–94
10. Ibid., column 795
11. Telegraph website, 31 March 2014
12. George Osborne, ‘Chancellor speaks on tax and benefits’ speech, 31 March 2014
13. Sunday Times, 28 February 2014
14. Sun, 31 March 2014
15. Janan Ganesh, George Osborne: The Austerity Chancellor (second edition, 2014), p. 89
16. Paul Goodman, http://conservativehome.blogs.com, 3 March 2015
17. ONS, Regional Labour Market Statistic, 14 May 2014
18. Spectator, 24 June 2014
19. Interview, George Osborne
20. Gov.uk, ‘Long term economic plan for the north-west set out by Prime Minister and Chancellor’, 8 January 2015
21. Gov.uk, ‘Prime Minister and Chancellor visit the set of Emmerdale’, 5 February 2015
Chapter 31
1. LBC, 26 November 2012
2. Daily Telegraph, 18 May 2013
3. Interview, David Cameron
4. Interview, Graham Brady
5. Interview, Liam Fox
6. Interview, Owen Paterson
7. Interview, Matthew d’Ancona
8. Guardian, 26 May 2014
9. Interview, Matthew Goodwin
10. Daily Telegraph website, 28 November 2014
11. Interview, Ken Clarke
12. BBC Poll of Polls, April 2013
13. ‘“Are you serious?” Boris, the Tories and the Voters’, Lord Ashcroft polls, p. 9
14. Jamie Huntman, Guardian, 3 May 2013
15. Independent, 26 May 2014
16. Interview, Craig Oliver
17. BBC News, 28 August 2014
18. The Times, 29 August 2014
19. BBC News, 27 September 2014
20. Interview, Kate Fall
21. BBC, The Andrew Marr Show, 28 September 2014
22. Daily Telegraph, 29 September 2014
23. BBC News, 1 October 2014
24. Interview, Michael Gove
25. Financial Times, 10 October 2014
26. Interview, Lord Feldman
27. BBC News, 18 November 2014
28. YouGov/Sun, 10 November 2014
Chapter 32
1. Matthew d’Ancona, Sunday Telegraph, 20 July 2014
2. The Times, 2 October 2013
3. Alan Smithers, ‘The coalition and society (II): Education’, in Anthony Seldon and Mike Finn (eds), The Coalition Effect, 2010–2015 (2015), p. 289
4. Interview, David Laws
5. Ibid.
6. Interview, Michael Gove
7. Interview, David Cameron
8. DfE, The Importance of Teaching (2010)
9. Daily Mail, 20 June 2012
10. Daily Telegraph, 21 June 2012
11. Interview, Michael Gove
12. Ibid.
13. BBC News, 7 February 2013
14. Observer, 17 February 2013
15. Independent, 19 March 2013
16. Daily Mail, 23 March 2013
17. Independent, 2 April 2013
18. BBC News, 18 May 2013
19. The Times, 1 October 2013
20. Andrew Gimson, ConservativeHome, 15 May 2014
21. TES, 24 April 2015
22. BBC News, 1 February 2014
23. Daily Mail, 5 March 2014
24. Financial Times, 14 March 2014
25. The Times, 17 July 2014
26. Financial Times, 16 June 2014
27. The Times, 4 June 2014; BBC News, 8 June 2014
28. Independent, 4 June 2014
29. Daily Mail, 10 June 2014
30. Ibid., 16 July 2014
31. BBC News, 9 October 2013
32. Independent, 8 June 2014
33. Daily Telegraph, 20 July 2014
Chapter 33
1. CNN News, 8 September 2014; Herald Scotland, 6 September 2014; Daily Mail, 4 September 2014
2. Guardian, 16 December 2014
3. Interview, Lord Strathclyde
4. Guardian website, 7 February 2014
5. Daily Telegraph, 20 February 2014
6. Interview, Nick Clegg
7. Daily Telegraph, 30 September 2013
8. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-26166794
9. Guardian, 15 December 2014
10. Interview, Nick Clegg
11. The Times, 4 June 2014
12. BBC News, 5 June 2014
13. Guardian, 11 June 2014
14. Ibid., 16 December 2014
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. Silver Jubilee Address to Parliament, 4 May1977, http://www.royal.gov.uk/ImagesandBroadcasts/Historic%20speeches%20and%20broadcasts/SilverJubileeaddresstoParliament4May1977.aspx
18. Sunday Times, 7 September 2014
19. Telegraph website, 14 September 2014
20. Guardian website, 8 September 2014
21. Bloomberg, 15 September 2014
22. Daily Mail, 13 September 2014
23. Interview, Craig Oliver
24. BBC News, 10 September 2014
25. Scottish Conservatives website, 15 September 2014
26. Daily Record, 23 November 2013
27. Guardian, 21 April 2014
28. Daily Record, 16 September 2014
29. Guardian, 16 December 2014
30. The Economist, 19 September 2014
31. City AM transcript, 17 September 2014
32. Sky News, 19 September 2014
33. BBC News, 19 September 2014
34. Guardian, 15 December 2014
35. Gov.uk, 19 September 2014
36. Guardian, 15 December 2014
37. The Times, 20 September 2014
38. Interview, Michael Gove
39. Observer, 21 September 2014
40. Sunday Times, 21 September 2014
41. Sky News, 23 September 2014
Chapter 34
1. Observer, 29 June 2014
2. The Times, 27 June 2014
3. Sunday Telegraph, 29 June 2014
4. Guardian, 13 June 2014
5. Observer, 7 March 2014
6. Guardian website, 27 February 2014
7. Sunday Telegraph, 15 March 2014
8. Financial Times, 27 May 2014
9. Sunday Times, 1 June 2014
10. Financial Times, 27 May 2014
11. Der Spiegel, 4 June 2014
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Wall Street Journal, 24 February 2014
15. Mathias Döpfner, ‘Juncker muss Präsident werden’, Bild, 30 May 2014
16. BBC News, 30 May 2014
17. Interview, Ken Clarke
18. Daily Telegraph, 4 November 2014
19. Sunday Telegraph, 8 June 2014
20. Guardian, 11June 2014
21. Daily Telegraph, 29 June 2014
22. Deutsche Welle, 10 June 2014
23. Sunday Times, 8 June 2014; Sun, 8 June 2014; Channel 4 News, 27 June 2014
24. Guardian, 13 June 2014
25. Wall Street Journal, 25 June 2014
26. BBC News, 26 June 2014
27. Ibid.
28. Independent on Sunday, 29 June 2014
29. MailOnline, 17 July 2014
30. BBC News, 8 October 2014
Chapter 35
1. Guardian, 18 September 2014
2. Reuters, 2 November 2014
3. Interview, Lord Feldman
4. Nick Robinson, BBC, 29 September 2014
5. Spectator website, 1 October 2014
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Interview, Craig Oliver
9. Nick Robinson, BBC, 1 October 2014
10. Daily Mail, 1 October 2014
11. Spectator website, 1 October 2014
12. Ibid.
13. Sunday Times, 7 December 2014
14. Ibid.
15. Hansard, 3 December 2014, column 308
16. BBC Radio 4, Today, 4 December 2014
Chapter 36
1. John Curtice, Financial Times, 10 October 2014
2. BBC News, 16 November 2014
3. Ibid., 8 August 2014
4. Interview, Lynton Crosby
5. Daily Telegraph, 10 January 2010
6. Guardian, 24 April 2015
7. Interview, David Cameron
8. Daily Telegraph, 14 April 2011
9. Guardian, 24 April 2015
10. Guardian website, 25 March 2013
11. Financial Times, 26 November 2013
12. Matthew d’Ancona, In It Together: The Inside Story of the Coalition Government (second edition, 2014), pp. 393–4
13. BBC News, 19 November 2014
14. David Cameron, Conservative Party conference speech, 1 October 2014; Daily Telegraph, 27 November 2014
15. Daily Telegraph, 27 November 2014
16. Huffington Post, 28 November 2014
17. Spectator website, 15 October 2014
18. Interview, Ken Clarke
19. Daily Telegraph, 13 November 2014
20. BBC News, 28 November 2014
21. UKIP website, 28 November 2014
22. Guardian, 29 November 2014
23. BBC News, 28 November 2014
24. Ibid.
25. MailOnline, 28 November 2014
Chapter 37
1. Guy Lodge and Illias Thoms, ‘The coalition and the Labour party’, in Anthony Seldon and Mike Finn (eds), The Coalition Effect 2010–2015 (2015), p. 541
2. Anthony Seldon, Blair (2004), p. 367
3. The Times, 22 July 2014
4. The Times, 15 January 2015
5. White House Fact Sheet, US–United Kingdom Cybersecurity Cooperation, 16 January 2015
6. Patrick Cockburn, The Rise of Islamic State: ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution (2015), p. 27
7. David Cameron, speech at the UN General Assembly, 25 September 2014, https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/pm-speech-at-the-un-general-assembly-2014
8. YouGov, 26 September 2014, https://yougov.co.uk/news/2014/09/26/isis-how-majority-came-favour-air-strikes/
9. Hansard, 26 September 2014, columns 1,255–68
10. Ibid., columns 1,268–72
11. BBC News, 30 September 2014
12. Sunday Telegraph, 17 October 2010
13. Daily Telegraph, 8 March 2012
14. Ibid., 3 June 2012
15. Ibid.
16. Guardian, 14 September 2014
17. New York Times, 18 February 2015
18. David Cameron, speech on radicalism and Islamic extremism, Munich Security Conference, 5 February 2011
19. Ibid.
20. Interview, Sir David Richards
21. Guardian website, 7 January 2015
22. Ibid.
Chapter 38
1. Interview, Andrew Mitchell
2. Interview, Danny Alexander
3. Telegraph blog, 28 January 2011
4. Interview, Justine Greening
5. Guardian website, 9 March 2015; OECD website, DAC member profile: the Netherlands (accessed 8 July 2015)
6. Wall Street Journal, 5 June 2014
7. The Times, 1 July 2014
8. USA Today, 31 August 2014
9. Daily Telegraph, 4 June 2015
10. Hansard, 19 October 2010, column 799
11. ‘UK should do more in Iraq, says Committee’, Parliament website, 5 February 2015 (accessed 13 July 2015)
12. Ibid., 2 March 2015
13. International Institute for Strategic Studies, The Military Balance 2015, 11 February 2015
14. Malcolm Chalmers, Mind the Gap: The MoD’s Emerging Budgetary Challenge, Royal United Services Institute, 9 March 2015
15. Washington Post, 21 May 2015
16. Ibid.
17. Financial Times, 11 May 2015
18. BBC News, 6 February 2015
19. The Times, 23 April 2015
20. Ibid., 27 April 2015
Chapter 39
1. Interview, Rupert Harrison
2. The Times, 19 March 2015
3. BBC News, 27 June 2013
4. Interview, George Osborne
5. Hansard, 18 March 2015, column 770
6. Ibid., column 779
7. Ibid., column 780
8. Sunday Telegraph, 22 March 2015
9. Observer, 22 March 2015
10. The Times, 19 March 2015
11. Ibid., 20 March 2015
12. Financial Times, 16 March 2015
13. Guardian, 30 April 2015
14. Interview, Nick Clegg
15. Ibid.
16. Interview, William Hague
17. Interview, Graham Brady
18. Sunday Times, 10 May 2015
19. Guardian, 6 April 2015
Chapter 40
1. Interview, Liz Sugg
2. The Times, 25 April 2015
3. Daily Telegraph, 16 May 2015
4. Interview, Liz Sugg
5. Guardian website, 27 April 2015
6. Interview, George Osborne
7. Interview, Lynton Crosby
8. Ibid.
9. Interview, Craig Oliver
10. The Times, 10 March 2015
11. Daily Telegraph, 4 May 2015
12. Interview, Stephen Gilbert
13. Ipsos MORI, 30 October 2014
14. Interview, Stephen Gilbert
15. Interview, George Osborne
16. Interview, Nick Clegg
17. Interview, George Osborne
18. Interview, Stephen Gilbert
19. Interview, Liz Sugg
20. Interview, Andrew Cooper
21. Interview, Craig Oliver
22. Interview, George Osborne
23. Guardian website, 6 May 2015
24. Cabinet Office Manual (2011), paragraph 2.12, pp. 14–15
25. BBC News, 24 March 2015
26. Interview, Nick Clegg
27. Theresa May, ‘We will win by being the party for all’, ConservativeHome Victory 2015 conference, 9 March 2013
28. Interview, William Hague
29. YouGov, 6 May 2015
30. ICM/Guardian, 6 May 2015
Epilogue
1. BBC, 7 May 2015
2. Interview, George Osborne
3. Interview, Liz Sugg
4. Interview, Kate Fall
5. Interview, Craig Oliver
6. David Cameron, victory speech in Witney, 8 May 2015
7. YouTube, 8 May 2015
8. Interview, George Osborne
9. David Cameron, victory speech in Downing Street, 8 May 2015
Index
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al-Abadi, Haider, 469
Abbott, Diane, 292
Abrey, Rev. Mark, 274
Abu Hamza, 473
Abu Qatada, 473
academies, 398–9, 402, 539
Acemoglu, Daron, 481
Adams, Nicola, 224
Adenauer, Konrad, 536
Adonis, Andrew, 187, 349, 395
advertising campaigns, 509
Afghanistan, 49, 55–69, 102, 107, 195, 470, 482, 491, 497, 541
Africa, objectives for, 480
Afriyie, Adam, 220, 270, 521
Alan Turing Institute, 375
alcohol pricing, 292
Alexander, Danny, 37–42, 44, 122, 240, 253, 480
an
d Budget (2012), 205–6, 210
and Budget (2013), 309–10
and Budget (2015), 4, 500–1
and coalition agreement, 23–4, 158
and health reforms, 183–4, 187, 191
and Scottish referendum, 126–8, 130–1, 410, 416, 418, 421
Alexander, Douglas, 334–5, 337–8
Algerian hostage crisis, 261
Allen, Graham, 153
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), 428
Altmann, Ros, 374
Anderson, Bruce, 130
Arab League, 104–5, 338
Ashcroft, Lord, 288, 385, 516
Ashdown, Paddy, 25, 56, 84, 101, 176, 501, 507
Ashton, Baroness, 168
‘aspiration’, 248–9, 289
al-Assad, Bashar, 199, 325–33, 338, 343–5, 468, 471, 541
al-Assad, Hafez, 325
Association of Teachers and Lecturers, 400
Astle, Julian, 116, 122, 205, 233, 236, 344
autocue malfunction, 349
AV referendum, 24, 26, 115–23, 128, 188, 231, 236–9, 497, 543
Axelrod, David, 464
badger culls, 405
Bahrain, 102, 104
Baker, James, 321
Baldry, Tony, 522
Baldwin, Stanley, 520, 543
Balls, Ed, 12, 15, 25, 34, 37, 214, 379, 412, 444, 447
and education reforms, 395, 398
and election (2015), 290, 531, 533
relations with Miliband, 376
slip-up over deficit, 253–4
Ban Ki-moon, 332, 337, 481
bank levy, 495–6
Bank of Canada, 313
Bank of England, 17, 38, 226, 308, 312–14, 497
Bank of Scotland, 415
banking regulation, 38, 259, 500
Barber, Michael, 1909
Barnett formula, 418
Barnier, Michel, 168, 427
Baron, John, 108, 259–60
Barroso, José Manuel, 425, 436
Bate, Paul, 190–1
Battersea Power Station redevelopment, 222
BBC, Conservatives and, 301, 513, 516–17
beach volleyball, 225
Beckett, Margaret, 483
‘bedroom tax’ (spare-room subsidy), 295, 301–2
Beecroft, Adrian, 156
beer duty, 310
Beijing Olympics, 223
Ben Ali, Zine El Abidine, 97
Benedict XVI, Pope, 75
benefit cap, see welfare reforms
‘benefit tourism’, 452, 455, 460
Bennett, Natalie, 460
Bercow, John, 90, 334, 468
Berezovsky, Boris, 362
Berlusconi, Silvio, 66, 363
Berners-Lee, Tim, 151
Bernstein, Howard, 377
Berry, James, 529
Bertin, Gabby, 22, 85, 112, 137
Bew, Paul, 398
Biden, Joe, 104, 189, 486
‘Big Society’, 17–19, 74, 86, 126, 143–4, 149–62, 209, 249, 536
Big Society Bank, 154
Bildt, Carl, 362
bin Laden, Osama, 470–1
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