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Back in June 2008, when Gordon Brown’s government was young but already so weak it looked like it might not last, James Foryth wrote about one positive legacy it might leave. The Union Flag all around Whitehall on the top of public buildings. Whether you saw that cynically as an attempt by a Scotsman to win over sceptical English voters, or as a genuine attempt to support a sense of British identity, James was right and those flags are still flying.

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We can all debate over what the great legacy of this Government should be or will be, and only time will tell which of its most important initiatives will prove most enduring: free schools, welfare reform, the fiscal adjustment or something else. But there is one achievement that I think has already achieved the almost irreversible status that James saw the raising of the flag attaining.