The bids are in. Web channels are overflowing with proud submissions to ‘grow', ‘transform', ‘strengthen', ‘deliver' (and many other superlatives), to create a new promised land (or two, or three or five).
Competing plans will culminate in what the secretary of state is ‘minded' to do and structural change orders will follow. From past experience the letters communicating the decision will be sparse. Cases set out in great detail over hundreds of pages may be judged in single sentences, consistency between these letters may be lacking.
