Allegra Stratton: A Budget Grid Blow Up Haunts UK Government

From my time in the Treasury, I remember how long in advance we would draw up the pre-Budget grid: the list of themes and stories we wanted to emphasize in the run up to the big day. So important was it, that we would troop into the office of the Number 10 director of communications to account for the robustness, and juiciness, of our plans.Read More