Number 10 officials have been working on the mid-term review since the autumn, with what the Prime Minister’s spokesman described today as a ‘long-term intention’ to publish the awkward annex. But even though the review itself was delayed from the real mid-term point of the Coalition to this Monday, it doesn’t seem to have given those working on it sufficient time to get the annex ready for publication at the same time. The PM’s spokesman said:
‘It has been a long standing intention to publish the annex. What we needed to do was to copper-bottom it.’
The implication was that there was a great deal of copper to put on the bottom of this point-by-point analysis of the government’s progress against the pledges in the Coalition agreement. What the spokesman wouldn’t comment on directly was the document that Patrick
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