The work begins
Subject: No time to lose
Date: Friday, 7 May 2010 14:28
From: David Cameron
To: Sir Gus O’Donnell, Cabinet Secretary
Dear Gus,
The Queen has just invited me to form a government. I’m sending this on by BlackBerry in the car, because there is a degree of urgency. Our country has been badly broken by 13 years of bad government. There is, literally, not a moment to lose in fixing it. The Queen has asked me to govern for up to five years, and mentioned to me that her father saw our country win a world war in six years. Her point: that five years is plenty to save our nation. That is precisely what I intend to do.
I may not have won the majority that I had hoped for. But I do not need legislation to achieve most of my reform plans: I can do this by email. I don’t see why we need to have endless meetings, when a simple instruction can suffice.
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