Probably because the political media are all gossip columnists. You’re all transfer window influencers in a state of constant hysteria. In that landscape, how do you think bold policy would have been reacted to? You all would have gone wild. I’d argue the two child cap lift was pretty bold.

After ten years…

I’m quite enjoying the 180 turn on a six pence from “you’ve wrecked the economy and created a black hole” to “there was no black hole and this is even worse”.

It's definitely reasonable to criticise the pre-budget comms, which were fairly shambolic (which, as ever, comes from strategic confusion). But this is all a massive overreaction.

Here was Robbie Gibb's "hugely impartial" take on the BBC, before he joined the board, as written in the Daily Mail