Philip Collins
(Picture: Daniel Hambury)Tony Blair once told me that he could announce the invasion of France any time he liked, just so long as he revealed the intention in a speech entitled The Skills Challenge. Serious government policy has become a bit like that these days. In the maelstrom of who attended which party, the expectation that photographs will circulate soon and the speculation about who will receive an email from the Metropolitan Police, there is a lot of bad news being buried.
Yesterday, there was some very bad news, which will haunt the Government, on the health service. Hardly anyone noticed but it was probably the most potent political event of the day.
