It’s rather weird to hear from one of my former interns that her husband has just been made Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Defense at the Pentagon.
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It’s rather weird to hear from one of my former interns that her husband has just been made Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Defense at the Pentagon.
I wonder. It suggests a degree of clever calculation from Cameron that I find a bit improbable. The normally reliable Economist has an inside account of Thursday night’s negotiations which makes interesting reading.
I feel sorry for Nick Clegg, who said “The demands Britain made for safeguards, on which the coalition government was united, were modest and reasonable. They were safeguards for the single market, not just the UK. There were no demands of repatriation of powers from the EU to Britain and no demands for a unilateral carve-out of UK financial services”. The point about the unilateral carve-out for the UK is just about barely true, but the rest is false, and he must know that.