After reading Brown’s claims in the Guardian today, this Kill A Minister mechanism in his speech today rather jumped out at me:
I mean, you can just imagine what Alistair Darling’s first “contract” would look like:“I will set out a clear and public annual contract for each new Cabinet Minister, detailing what I expect them and their department to deliver to the British people, and that their continued appointment is dependent on their delivery just as it would be in a business or any other organisation.”
You, the Chancellor, will undertake to deliver the following to the British people:
i) Economic growth of 5 percent in 2010-11
ii) A sufficient level of investment in our schools, hospitals and families, to be determined by Number 10.
iii) No interviews which cast aspersions on the methods and capabilities of your colleagues in government.
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