"Tony wants" - the 2 most potent words in Whitehall, according to that most perceptive of commentators, Professor Peter Hennessy, only a few short years ago
Not any more, I suspect
But it distresses me - genuinely - that some members of this administration still do not seem to have grasped that there is a real, though subtle, difference between Tony & Prime Minister. Between Gordon & Chancellor of the Exchequer. And between David or John or whoever it is this month & Home Secretary
An Act of Parliament says that "the Home Secretary shall or may or must ....
And that means every Home Secretary to come, in perpetuity, until Parliament decides otherwise
Whether they are called John, or David, Tarquin, Mohamed, Mary Jane or Cruella
