That is a sorrier story. As the new millennium dawned and ministers danced in the Dome, John Major wrote a telling piece in the Spectator. They're not being candid, he said. Tax is going up. They deny it.
Transport is in a muddle.
They deny it. John Major was spot on, just as he was dead right to go on to warn Hague against his loony right. The record, in practice and in courage, holds well. He could do far worse, in chastened humility, than seek to remember and learn from the forgotten years.