Adrian Wooldridge

You know, this is completely, uh, unprecedented, arrogant Toryism, et cetera." The whole point of the Lib Dems, one would have thought, the whole point of liberalism is to hold an executive to account.

The whole liberal settlement, certainly as outlined in Adrian Wooldridge's very good book about, um-

Yes

... liberalism-

A lot of your framework is Kindleberger.

The other book that we recently did was Adrian Wooldridge, who's often written for Bloomberg, et cetera.

And y- you mention populism.

He argues that populism is the shadow of liberalism, and much of what you're talking about in your book is kinda like what's the liberal order or what we know as, you know, kinda the, the dollar world and the liberal order that's been sitting around us.

That, of course, I freely admit, is an oversimplified story, but essentially it is one of incompetence on the part of these administrations of these UK regions.

And on that, I was fascinated to read a long article by Adrian Wooldridge who is now a senior editor at Bloomberg, I think he was the editor at The Economist, about why he thinks Andy Burnham is likely to fail.

Now, the usual arguments about the new prime minister and why he's going to fail are down to the fact that they can't do anything.

There's no money, and so he can't invest in the economy to generate the growth that's needed.