Corridors of power

05 December 2017

Conservative Party special advisers Simon Fortescue-Smythe and Julian Ponsonby are speculating about next year’s spending plans over a bottle of bubbly…

Simon: Of course we really don’t need all these Treasury number-crunchers taking months on the next spending round. It could all be done in minutes.

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