George Osborne and David Laws’ press conference this morning gave some hints about
the chances of the coalition making it. The Treasury is where, I suspect, this coalition will succeed or fail. If the two parties can keep it together on how to reduce the deficit and how fast to
do it, then I expect that they’ll be able to deal with the other issues that are thrown at them.
Encouragingly from this perspective, Osborne and Laws seemed comfortable sharing a platform; there were no attempts to score points off each other. It appeared to be a harmonious double-act. But Osborne didn’t refer as many questions to Laws as he did to Phillip Hammond, his trusted and super-able deputy in opposition, back in the day. It’ll be interesting to see if this changes over time.
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