Interviewees who agreed to be quoted by name are referred to below, in addition to other published sources. To avoid endlessly repeating the words ‘Private interview’ and ‘Private information’, off-the-record references are not cited individually.
Introduction
1. For an analysis of the policy record of the coalition government, see Anthony Seldon and Mike Finn (eds), The Coalition Effect, 2010–2015 (2015)
2. Benedict Brogan, Daily Telegraph, 5 October 2011
3. Stuart Ball, Portrait of a Party: The Conservative Party in Britain (2013), p. 468
4. Interview, Stuart Ball
5. Interview, Vernon Bogdanor
6. Anthony Seldon, ‘Chumocracy’, Sunday Times, 5 May 2013
Chapter 1
1. Interview, Tom Fletcher
2. Interview, Sir Simon McDonald
3. Interview, Tom Fletcher
4. Interview, Ed Llewellyn
5. Interview, Liz Sugg
6. Interview, Laurence Mann
7. Interview, Tom Fletcher
8. Interview, Laurence Mann
9. Interview, Tom Fletcher
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Interview, Patrick McLoughlin
14. Interview, Laurence Mann
15. Ibid.
16. Interview, Ed Llewellyn
Chapter 2
1. Anthony Seldon and Guy Lodge, Brown at 10 (2010), p. 144
2. Ibid., p. 151
3. Francis Elliott and James Hanning, Cameron: Practically a Conservative (third edition, 2012), pp. 53–72, 109–30
4. Interview, George Osborne
5. Ibid.
6. Interview, Ed Llewellyn
7. Interview, Oliver Letwin
8. Peter Snowdon, Back from the Brink: The Extraordinary Rise and Fall of the Conservative Party (2010), p. 314
9. Reconstruction: Plan for a Strong Economy, Conservative Party conference, 11 September 2008
10. Interview, Rupert Harrison
11. Guardian website, 9 October 2008
12. Seldon and Lodge, Brown at 10, pp. 282–3; The Times, 27 December 2014
13. Interview, Matthew Hancock
14. Interview, Oliver Letwin
15. Interview, George Osborne
16. Hansard, 22 April 2009, column 243
17. Seldon and Lodge, Brown at 10, p. 258
18. Ibid., pp. 258–9
19. Interview, Rupert Harrison
20. Interview, Matthew Hancock
21. George Osborne, ‘It’s ridiculous to pretend that there won’t be cuts’, The Times, 15 June 2009
22. George Osborne, Conservative Party conference speech, 2009; Snowdon, Back from the Brink, pp. 372–4
23. Snowdon, Back from the Brink, p. 372
24. Interview, George Osborne
25. Janan Ganesh, George Osborne: The Austerity Chancellor (2012), p. 221
26. Martin Kettle, ‘George Osborne’s speech did the business’, Guardian website, 6 October 2009
27. Telegraph website, 6 October 2009
28. Guardian, 7 January 2010
29. Snowdon, Back from the Brink, p. 389
30. Ibid., p. 390
31. Ibid., p. 389
32. George Osborne, Mais Lecture, ‘A New Economic Model’, February 2010
33. Conservative election poster, ‘We can’t go on like this. I’ll cut the deficit, not the NHS’, January 2010
Chapter 3
1. Interview, David Cameron
2. Interview, Liz Sugg
3. Interview, Nick Clegg
4. Interview, Oliver Letwin
5. Ibid.
6. Interview, Kate Fall
7. See Anthony Seldon and Guy Lodge, Brown at 10 (2010), pp. 454–68
8. Interview, Lord O’Donnell
9. See David Laws, 22 Days in May: The Birth of the Lib Dem–Conservative Coalition (2010); Rob Wilson, 5 Days to Power (2010); Andrew Adonis, 5 Days in May: The Coalition and Beyond (2013)
10. Interview, William Hague
11. Interview, David Laws
12. Interview, William Hague
13. Interview, Lord O’Donnell
14. Interview, Kenneth Clarke
15. Interview, Oliver Letwin
16. Interview, George Osborne
17. Ibid.
18. Interview, William Hague
19. Interview, Nick Clegg
20. Interview, Lord O’Donnell
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. Interview, Graham Brady
24. Interview, Laurence Mann
25. Interview, Lena Pietsch
26. Interview, Jonny Oates
27. Interview, Laurence Mann
28. Interview, Andrew Cooper
29. Interview, Lord O’Donnell
30. Interview, Oliver Letwin
Chapter 4
1. Interview, Paul Kirby
2. Interview, David Laws
3. Ibid.
4. Interview, Steve Hilton
5. Reconstruction: Plan for a Strong Economy, Conservative Party conference, 11 September 2008
6. BBC News, 24 May 2010
7. David Laws, 22 Days in May: The Birth of the Lib Dem–Conservative Coalition (2010), p. 232
8. Observer, 30 May 2010
9. Interview, Paul Tucker
10. Interview, Danny Alexander
11. Matthew d’Ancona, In it Together: The Inside Story of the Coalition Government (2013), p. 47
12. Guardian website, 22 June 2010
13. See Chapter 24 for a full account of the battles between the Treasury and DWP
14. Interview, Sir David Richards
15. Hansard, 19 October 2010, Column 798
16. Securing Britain in an Age of Uncertainty: The Strategic Defence and Security Review, p. 32
17. BBC News, 20 October 2010
18. Hansard, 20 October 2010, column 949
19. BBC News, 21 October 2010
20. Hansard, 20 October 2010, column 965
21. Interview, Lena Pietsch
22. Ibid.
Chapter 5
1. Interview, Jonathan Caine
2. Interview, Owen Paterson
3. Interview, Tom Fletcher
4. Interview, Jonathan Caine
5. David Cameron speech to the Commons, Guardian, 15 June 2010
6. Interview, Tom Fletcher
7. Interview, Jonathan Caine
8. Ibid.
9. Hansard, 15 June 2010, columns 739–42
10. Guardian, 18 June 2010
11. Interview, Julian King
12. BBC News, 11 October 2011
Chapter 6
1. Interview, Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles
2. Interview, James Fergusson
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Interview, Sir Nigel Sheinwald
6. Interview, Liam Fox
7. Interview, Sir Simon McDonald
8. Interview, Oliver Letwin
9. Interview, Sir Peter Ricketts
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Interview, Tom Fletcher
13. Diary, Sir Nick Parker, 11 June 2010
14. Interview, Liz Sugg
15. New Statesman, 4 December 2008
16. Rolling Stone, 22 June 2010
Chapter 7
1. Interview, Tom Fletcher
2. Guardian, 8 September 2010
3. Ben Brogan interview with David Cameron, Daily Telegraph, 25 September 2010
4. Interview, Tom Fletcher
5. Guardian website, 18 April 2010
6. Interview with ITV before 2010 election, quoted in the Guardian, 8 September 2010
7. Interview, Lord Feldman
8. Guardian website, 27 July 2010; ibid., 28 July 2010
9. Interview, Tom Fletcher
10. Guardian, 25 August 2010
11. Daily Mail, 24 August 2010
12. Guardian, 25 August 2010
13. Gordon Brown, House of Commons, 25 February 2009
14. Interview, Lord Feldman
15. Interview, David Cameron
16. Ibid.
Chapter 8
1. Telegraph website, 4 October 2010
2. Guardian, 27 January 2007
3. Matthew d’Ancona, In It Together: The Inside Story of the Coalition Government (2013), p. 74.
4. Francis Elliott and James Hanning, Cameron: Practically a Conservative (third edition, 2012), p. 451
5. Guardian website, 9 July 2009
6. Guardian, 25 February 2010
7. Elliott and Hanning, Cameron: Practically a Conservative, pp. 452–3
8. Observer, 10 July 2011
9. New York Times, 5 September 2010
10. Daily Telegraph, 21 December 2010
11. Guardian website, 5 January 2011
12. Ibid., 21 January 2011
13. David Cameron, Andy Coulson Resignation Statement, 21 January 2011
14. Interview, Lord Feldman
15. Independent, 22 January 2011
16. David Cameron, Twitter, 6 October 2012
17. New Statesman, ‘Cameron’s Ten Biggest U-turns’, 17 February 2011
18. BBC Panorama, 25 April 2012
19. Hansard, 30 June 2011, column 55WS
20. BBC News, 13 July 2011
21. Hansard, 20 July 2011, column 921
22. BBC News, 20 July 2011
23. Hansard, 13 July 2011, column 314
24. Guardian website, 25 April 2013
25. BBC News, 4 July 2014
26. Ibid., 24 July 2014
27. Daily Telegraph, 25 June 2012
28. Guardian website, 21 November 2014
Chapter 9
1. Interview, Liam Fox
2. BBC News, 21 February 2011
3. Guardian, 20 February 2011
4. Cabinet Secretary’s Review of papers relating to the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, Cabinet Office, 7 February 2011
5. Anthony Bell and David Witter, The Libyan Revolution, Part 2: Escalation and Intervention (Institute for the Study of War, September 2011), p. 14
6. Guardian website, 22 February 2011
7. Guardian, 6 March 2011
8. Dell and Witter, p. 18
9. Interview, Sir David Richards
10. David Gardner, Last Chance, quoted in James Buchan, ‘On a Knife edge’, Guardian, 3 May 2009
11. Interview, Liam Fox
12. Patrick Wintour and Nicholas Watt, Guardian, 2 October 2011
13. Interview, Sir Simon McDonald
14. Matthew d’Ancona, Sunday Telegraph, 20 March 2011
15. Wintour and Watt, Guardian, 2 October 2011
16. d’Ancona, Sunday Telegraph, 20 March 2011
17. Interview, Sir Peter Ricketts
18. Interview, Sir Peter Westmacott
19. Bell and Witter, The Libyan Revolution, Part 2, pp. 24–5
20. Sunday Telegraph, 26 March 2011
21. Guardian, 25 March 2011
22.Interview, Sir David Richards
23.Wintour and Watt, Guardian, 2 October 2011
24.Ibid.
25.Ibid.
26.Ibid.
27.Anthony Bell, Spencer Butts and David Witter, The Libyan Revolution, Part 4: The Tide Turns (Institute for the Study of War, November 2011), p. 17
28.Ibid., p. 21
29.Interview, Gabby Bertin
30.James Forsyth, Spectator blog, 20 September 2011
Chapter 10
1. Interview, Lord O’Donnell
2. Interview, Patrick McLoughlin
3. Interview, William Hague
4. Interview, Julian Astle
5. Interview, Nick Clegg
6. Matthew d’Ancona, In It Together: The Inside Story of the Coalition Government (2013), p. 79
7. Interview, Matthew Elliott
8. Guardian/ICM poll, 3 December 2010
9. New Statesman, 11 May 2011
10. Reuters/Ipsos MORI Political Monitor – AV Questions, 25 February 2011
11. Janan Ganesh, George Osborne: The Austerity Chancellor (2012), p. 273
12. ConservativeHome, 16 February 2011
13. Interview, Lord Feldman
14. Tim Montgomerie, ‘The Story of the AV Campaign’, http://conservativehomeblogs.com/avstory/, 5 July 2011
15. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12504935
16. Interview, Matthew Elliott
17. Guardian/ICM poll, 18 April 2011
18. Interview, Stephen Gilbert
19. Interview, Nick Clegg
20. BBC Radio 4, The Liberal Who Came to Power, 17 February 2014
21. Ibid.
22. Interview, David Willetts
23. Guardian, 3 March 2011
24. BBC Radio 4, Today, 3 May 2011
25. Interview, Nick Clegg
26. Interview, Oliver Letwin
27. BBC Radio 4, The Liberal Who Came to Power, 17 February 2014
28. Interview, Danny Alexander
29. Interview, Julian Astle
30. Interview, Oliver Letwin
31. Interview, Nick Clegg
Chapter 11
1. Neil Oliver, A History of Scotland (2009), p. 294
2. Interview, Ed Llewellyn
3. Severin Carrell, Nicholas Watt and Patrick Wintour, ‘The Real Story of the Scottish Referendum: Britain on the brink’, Guardian, 15 December 2014
4. Daily Mail, 19 August 2013; Ed Lowther, ‘How Scottish is David Cameron?’, BBC News website, 7 February 2014
5. BBC News, 14 May 2010
6. Ibid.
7. Interview, Danny Alexander
8. Ibid.
9. Interview, Andrew Dunlop
10. Carrell, Watt and Wintour, Guardian, 15 December 2014
11. Hansard, 10 January 2012, column 51
12. Carrell, Watt and Wintour, Guardian, 15 December 2014
13. Ibid.
14. Interview, Andrew Cooper
15. http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/prime-minister-david-cameron-gives-a-speech-at-the-apex-news-photo/139060650
16. ConservativeHome, 7 October 2011; interview, Julian Glover
17. Transcript of David Cameron’s Scotland speech, 16 February 2012
18. Ibid.
19. Sunday Times, 14 October 2012
20. Interview, Ed Llewellyn
Chapter 12
1. Matthew d’Ancona, In It Together: The Inside Story of the Coalition Government (2013), p. 140
2. Interview, Liz Sugg
3. BBC Radio 4, Today, 9 August 2011
4. BBC News, 9 August 2011
5. Guardian website, 9 August 2011
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Boris Johnson, interviewed in Boris Johnson: The Irresistible Rise, BBC film, Michael Cockerell, 25 March 2013
11. d’Ancona, In It Together, p. 145
12. Guardian website, 10 August 2011
13. Ibid.
14. BBC Radio 4, The World at One, 10 August 2011
15. BBC News, 10 August 2011
16. Interview, Craig Oliver
17. Hansard, 11 August 2011, column 1,053
18. Ibid., column 1,131
19. Ibid., column 1,057
20. Interview, Steve Hilton
Chapter 13
1. Interview, Lord Feldman
2. Matthew d’Ancona, In it Together: The Inside Story of the Coalition Government (2013), p. 188
3. Interview, David Cameron
4. Peter Snowdon, Back from the Brink: The Extraordinary Rise and Fall of the Conservative Party (2010), pp. 224–42
5. Steve Hilton to Tim Chatwin, email, 21 December 2009
6. Interview, David Cameron
7. Interview, Steve Hilton
8. Ibid.
9. Interview, Tim Chatwin
10. Interview, Oliver Letwin
11. Interview, Francis Maude
12. Interview, Michael Lynas
13. Interview, Lord O’Donnell
14. Interview, Steve Hilton
15. David Cameron, Big Society Speech, 19 July 2010
16. Financial Times, 23 July 2010
17. Interview, Tim Colbourne
18. Guardian, 14 February 2011
19. Independent, 15 February 2011
20. Interview, Steve Hilton
21. BBC News online, 23 May 2011
22. Spectator, 25 May 2011
23. Daily Telegraph, 6 July 2011
24. Interview, Lord Kerslake
25. The Times, 20 January 2015
Chapter 14
1. Interview, David Cameron
2. Sun, 26 September 2007
3. David Laws, 22 Days in May: The Birth of the Lib Dem–Conservative Coalition (2010), p. 185
4. Liberal Democrat Manifesto (2010), p. 67
5. Interview, Nick Clegg
6. BBC News, 8 September 2011
7. Guardian website, 24 October 2011
8. Interview, David Cameron
9. Guardian, 5 December 2011
10. EurActiv.com, 5 December 2011
11. Interview, Tim Colbourne
12. Nick Clegg, The Andrew Marr Show, 11 December 2011
13. Interview, Lena Pietsch
14. Hansard, 12 December 2011, column 519
15. Interview, Andrew Cooper
16. Spectator website, 14 December 2011
17. BBC News, 13 December 2011
18. http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2011/12/15/uk_insists_it_will_help_europes_new_fiscal_pact/
19. Daily Mail, ‘Day PM Put Britain First: Defiant Cameron Stands Up To Euro Bullies’, 10 December 2011
20. Interview, Tim Colbourne
Chapter 15
1. David Cameron, Conservative Party conference speech, 4 October 2006
2. Andrew Lansley, Conservative Party press release, 11 July 2007
3. David Cameron, speech to the Royal College of Nursing, 11 May 2009
4. David Cameron, speech to the Royal College of Pathologists, 2 November 2009
5. The Coalition: Our Programme for Government (2010), p. 24
6. Sir David Nicholson, NHS Alliance conference, 18 November 2010
7. David Cameron, Foreword to the Spring 2008 Conference Paper
8. Nicholas Timmins, Never Again, Institute for Government/King’s Fund (2012); Independent, 10 July 2012
9. Matthew d’Ancona, In It Together: The Inside Story of the Coalition Government (2013), p. 99
10. Simon Stevens, Financial Times, 15 July 2010
11. d’Ancona, In It Together, p. 106
12. Timmins, Never Again, p. 96
13. Ibid.
14. Guardian website, 6 April 2011
15. Robert Hazell and Ben Yong, The Politics of Coalition: How the Conservative–Liberal Democrat Government Works (2012), p. 182
16. Observer, 10 March 2012
17. Interview, Lord Feldman
18. Interview, David Cameron
19. ‘NHS Five Year Forward View’, 23 October 2014
Chapter 16
1. ‘Statement by the President on the Passing of Leonard Nimoy’, the White House, 27 February 2015; Anthony Seldon and Guy Lodge, Brown at 10 (2010), p. 229
2. Barack Obama, Westminster Hall, 25 May 2011
3. Guardian, 14 March 2012
4. Time website, 14 March 2012
5. BBC News, 13 March 2012
6. Matthew d’Ancona, In It Together: The Inside Story of the Coalition Government (2013), p. 232
7. Interview, Sir Peter Westmacott
8. d’Ancona, In It Together, p. 232
9. Interview, Jonny Oates.
Chapter 17
1. Matthew d’Ancona, In It Together: The Inside Story of the Coalition Government (2013), p. 232
2. Interview, Rupert Harrison
3. Janan Ganesh, George Osborne: The Austerity Chancellor (2012), p. 281
4. BBC News, 1 February 2012
5. James Browne, ‘The 50p income tax rate’, Institute for Fiscal Studies (2012); Ganesh, George Osborne, p. 283
6. Interview, Julian Astle
7. Interview, Nick Clegg
8. Tim Montgomerie, ‘Tories should support more property taxes if proceeds are used to cut other, more harmful taxes’, http://conservativehomeblogs.com, 29 August 2012
9. Interview, Nick Clegg
10. Interview, Julian Astle
11. Interview, Danny Alexander
12. Hansard, 21 March 2012, column 810
13. Interview, George Osborne
14. Guardian, 28 August 2012
15. Interview, George Osborne
16. Daily Telegraph, 28 March 2012
17. Financial Times, 6 March 2012
18. BBC News, 23 April 2012
19. Interview, George Osborne
20. BBC News, 29 May 2012
21. Guardian, 7 June 2012
22. Interview, Andrew Cooper
23. Interview, Danny Alexander
Chapter 18
1. Interview, Lord Feldman
2. Guardian, 4 September 2011
3. David Cameron, Twitter, 6 July 2014
4. The Times, 25 February 2015
5. Interview, Ed Llewellyn
6. Daily Telegraph, 26 July 2012
7. BBC Radio 4, Under Attack: The Threat from Cyberspace, 8 July 2013
8. BBC News, 31 December 1999
9. Daily Telegraph, 30 July 2012
10. Guardian, 3 September 2012
11. Ibid.
12. Interview, George Osborne
13. Interview, Lord Feldman
14. Interview, Iain Duncan Smith
15. Ibid.
Chapter 19
1. YouGov, 27 June 2012
2. Politico, 27 October 2011
3. Conservative Manifesto (2010), p. 67
4. Liberal Democrat Manifesto (2010), p. 88
5. BBC Radio 4, The Liberal Who Came to Power, 17 February 2014
6. The Coalition: Our Programme for Government (2010), p. 27
7. Interview, Oliver Letwin
8. The Times, 27 June 2012
9. Guardian website, 27 June 2012
10. Jesse Norman, Observer, 1 July 2012
11. Ibid.
12. Interview, Lord Strathclyde
13. Interview, Julian Astle
14. Guardian website, 6 July 2012
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
18. ITV Meridian News, 9 July 2012
19. Interview, Jonny Oates
20. The Times website, 9 July 2012
21. Hansard, 10 July 2012, column 188
22. BBC News, 11 July 2012
23. Matthew d’Ancona, In It Together: The Inside Story of the Coalition Government (2013), p. 288
24. Nick Clegg statement, BBC News, 6 August 2012
25. Interview, Liam Fox
26. The Coalition: Our Programme for Government, p. 27
27. Interview, Nick Clegg
28. Interview, Julian Astle
29. Interview, Jonny Oates
30. Interview, Lena Pietsch
31. Interview, Lord Feldman
32. Interview, William Hague
33. Interview, Nick Clegg
34. Interview, Oliver Letwin
35. The Coalition: Together in the National Interest (2013), p. 6
Chapter 20
1. Sunday Times, 23 December 2012
2. Guardian, 28 November 2014
3. The Times, 26 September 2012
4. Guardian, 26 September 2012
5. MailOnline, 30 September 2012
6. Interview, Andrew Cooper
7. Matthew d’Ancona, In It Together: The Inside Story of the Coalition Government (2013), p. 299
8. Ibid.
9. Interview, Matthew Hancock
10. Interview, Andrew Cooper
11. Interview, David Cameron
12. Interview, Kate Fall
13. Interview, Lord Feldman
14. Daily Mail, 11 October 2012
15. Independent on Sunday, 21 October 2012
16. ComRes, ibid.
17. Sunday Times, 21 October 2012
18. Daily Telegraph, 27 July 2012
19. Interview, Oliver Letwin
20. Forecast Evaluation Report, OBR, 16 October 2012, p. 8
21. Interview, Danny Alexander
22. Guardian website, 5 December 2012
Chapter 21
1. Financial Times, 13 January 2014
2. Evening Standard, 16 January 2013
3. Coalition Agreement, p. 19
4. Guardian website, 29 June 2012
5. Ibid.
6. Sunday Telegraph, 1 July 2012
7. Guido Fawkes website, 28 June 2012
8. Letter from David Cameron to John Baron, 18 September 2012, https://html1-f.scribdassets.com/f6wos38sg1uedld/images/1-0529bb1be2.jpg
9. BBC News, 31 October 2012
10. Ibid.
11. Stefan Kornelius, Angela Merkel: The Authorized Biography (translated 2013), Kindle edition 3284
12. Ibid.
13. Interview, Ken Clarke
14. Interview, Graham Brady
15. Private information
16. Interview, David Cameron
17. Hansard, 23 January 2013, columns 304–5
18. Ibid., column 306
19. See Anthony Seldon, Major: A Political Life, 1997
20. Guardian website, 14 February 2013
21. Daily Telegraph, 9 February 2013; Guardian, 9 February 2013
22. Daily Telegraph, 13 May 2013
23. Interview, Owen Paterson
24. Interview, Ken Clarke
25. The Times, 7 May 2013
26. BBC News, 15 May 2013
27. Ibid., 29 October 2014
28. Guardian, 7 November 2013
Chapter 22
1. Guardian, 4 October 2005
2. Interview, Steve Hilton
3. Guardian, 4 October 2006
4. David Cameron, Downing Street reception, 9 April 2014
5. YouGov, 13 June 2012
6. BBC Radio 4, Today, 2 September 2011
7. Pink News, 28 November 2013
8. Guardian, 5 October 2011
9. Interview, Andrew Cooper
10. Channel 4 News, 15 March 2012
11. www.c4m.org.uk, 15 March 2012
12. Matthew d’Ancona, Evening Standard, 30 May 2012
13. Daily Telegraph, 28 May 2012
14. Ibid., 6 October 2012
15. Interview, Alan Duncan
16. Interview, Laurence Mann
17. George Osborne, ‘Obama proves you can win in tough times’, The Times, 13 November 2012
18. Daily Telegraph, 10 December 2012
19. Matthew d’Ancona, In It Together: The Inside Story of the Coalition Government (2013), p. 310
20. Ibid., p. 311
21. Ibid., p. 313
22. Gary Gibbon, Channel 4 politics blog, 6 February 2013
23. Daily Telegraph, 5 February 2013
24. New York Times, 6 February 2013
25. Interview, Graham Brady
26. Interview, Phillip Blond
27. New York Times, 6 February 2013
28. BBC News, 5 March 2013
29. Interview, Liam Fox
30. Daily Telegraph, 20 May 2013
31. Ibid., 25 May 2013
32. Daily Mail, 4 June 2013
33. Gibbon, Channel 4 politics blog, 4 June 2013
34. Guardian, 16 July 2013
35. David Cameron, 2013 Party Conference Speech, 2 October 2013
36. Pink News, 28 March 2014
37. Ibid.
38. Ibid., 15 July 2013
39. Interview, David Cameron
Chapter 23
1. Paul Goodman, Daily Telegraph, 29 December 2012
2. BBC Poll Tracker, 20 January 2015
3. Martin Ivens, Sunday Times, 9 September 2012
4. Spectator, 6 October 2012
5. Guardian, 7 October 2012
6. Ibid.
7. BBC News, 27 November 2012
8. Interview, Lord Feldman
9. Guardian, 18 November 2012
10. Observer, 21 July 2013; Sonia Purnell, Just Boris (2012)
11. Interview, Lynton Crosby
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Matthew d’Ancona, In It Together: The Inside Story of the Coalition Government (2013), p. 231
15. The Times website, 12 June 2013
16. Mail on Sunday, 14 April 2013
17. BBC News, 12 July 2013
18. Sky, 12 July 2013
19. Guardian website, 12 July 2013
20. Sunday Times, 3 November 2013
21. Interview, Lynton Crosby
22. David Cameron, CBI Speech 2013, 4 November 2013
23. Interview, Lynton Crosby
24. ComRes, Guardian, 12 December 2014
Chapter 24
1. Interview, Iain Duncan Smith
2. Ipsos MORI poll, 12 July 2013
3. Philip Collins, The Times, 28 November 2014
4. Peter Oborne, Daily Telegraph, 16 February 2015
5. Iain Duncan Smith and Graham Allen, Early Intervention: Good Parents. Great Kids. Better Citizens, Centre for Social Justice (2008)
6. Stephen Brien, Dynamic Benefits: Towards welfare that works, Centre for Social Justice (2009)
7. Interview, Iain Duncan Smith
8. Daily Mail, 11 January 2015
9. 2010 Spending Review, p. 68
10. BBC News, 11 January 2015
11. David Cameron, Sun, 1 February 2012
12. See Chapter 18
13. Daily Mail, 13 November 2011
14. Press release, the Trussell Trust, 16 October 2013, http://www.trusselltrust.org/foodbank-numbers-triple
15. BBC News, 20 February 2014
16. Ruby Stockham, Left Foot Forward, 4 July 2015
17. Journal of Public Heath, ‘A Qualitative Study of the “Bedroom Tax”’, 15 March 2015
18. National Housing Federation, 27 May 2014
19. Interview, Philippa Stroud
20. Interview, Iain Duncan Smith
21. Interview, Lord Kerslake
22. Interview, Philippa Stroud
23. Peter Oborne, ‘With Universal Credit, Work Might Finally Pay’, Daily Telegraph, 15 February 2014
24. Matthew d’Ancona, In It Together: The Inside Story of the Coalition Government (2013), pp. 86–98; Matthew d’Ancona, ‘The reinvention of Iain Duncan Smith: is he the man to save the Tories?’, Guardian, 15 February 2015
25. Gov.uk, ‘Plans Advanced for Accelerated Roll-out of Universal Credit After Success in North-West’, 29 September 2014
26. National Audit Office, ‘Departmental Overview: The Performance of the Department for Work and Pensions 2013–14’, 28 October 2014
27. Interview, Oliver Letwin
Chapter 25
1. Interview, George Osborne
2. Interview, Rupert Harrison
3. Channel 4 News, 25 January 2013
4. The Economist, 23 February 2013
5. Vince Cable, New Statesman, 6 March 2013
6. Matthew d’Ancona, In It Together: The Inside Story of the Coalition Government (2013), p. 336
7. Interview, George Osborne
8. Interview, Oliver Letwin
9. d’Ancona, In It Together, p. 336
10. Hansard, 20 March 2013, columns 947–9
11. Daily Mail, 21 March 2013; The Times, 21 March 2013; Daily Telegraph, 21 March 2013
12. Sky News, 16 April 2013
13. Guardian, 19 April 2013
14. Guardian, 20 March 2013
15. BBC HARDtalk, 9 August 2012
16. Bank of England, Forward Guidance press release, 7 August 2013
17. ONS, Gross Domestic Product Preliminary Estimate, Q1 2013, 25 April 2013
18. BBC News, 27 June 2013
19. George Osborne, Mansion House Speech 2013, 19 June 2013
20. ONS, Gross Domestic Product Preliminary Estimate, Q2 2013, 25 July 2013
21. The Times, 23 August 2013
22. Independent, 20 August 2013
23. Financial Times, 8 October 2013
24. ONS, Gross Domestic Product Second Estimate, Q4 2013, 26 February 2014; Financial Times, 6 June 2014
Chapter 26
1. Bloomberg, 8 April 2013
2. Gov.uk press release, ‘Death of Lady Thatcher’, 8 April 2014
3. Francis Elliott and James Hanning, Cameron: Practically a Conservative (2012), p. 68
4. Ibid., pp. 91–2
5. BBC News, 13 September 2007
6. Anthony Seldon, Major (1997), pp. 252–5, 325–8
7. Simon Heffer, lecture, Wellington College, 9 March 2015
8. Interview, Vernon Bogdanor
9. Interview, William Hague
10. Peter Snowdon, Back from the Brink: The Extraordinary Rise and Fall of the Conservative Party (2010), p. 214
11. Interview, David Cameron
12. BBC News, 17 April 2013
13. Sunday Times, 28 April 2013
14. Hansard, 10 April 2013, columns 1,613–16
15. Ibid., columns 1,616–17
16. Guardian website, 13 April 2013
17. Guardian, 17 April 2013
Chapter 27
1. Médecins San Frontières, press release, 24 August 2013; Al Arabiya News, 21 August 2013
2. BBC News, 24 September 2013
3. ‘The Opposition Advances in Damascus’, Institute for the Study of War, 9 August 2013
4. Daily Telegraph, 15 September 2013
5. Foreign Policy, 6 December 2012; Time,18 September 2012
6. Daily Telegraph, 10 August 2012
7. BBC News, 20 November 2012
8. Daily Telegraph, 10 November 2012
9. Guardian, 12 November 2012
10. David Richards, Taking Command (2014), Kindle version 76%
11. Interview, Sir David Richards
12. Richards, Taking Command, Kindle version 77%
13. CNN, 23 January 2013
14. BBC News, 15 March 2013
15. Early Day Motion 189, 5 June 2013
16. The Week, 17 June 2013
17. Sunday Times, 16 June 2013
18. Gov.uk, ‘The 2013 UK G8 Presidency’
19. Daily Telegraph, 20 August 2012
20. Interview, Nick Clegg
21. ‘Chemical Weapon Use by Syrian Regime: UK Government Legal Position’, 29 August 2013
22. Interview, Ken Clarke
23. Ibid.
24. https://twitter.com/david_cameron/status/372321743064793088
25. BBC Radio 4, The Syria Vote: One Day in August, 10 November 2014
26. Sun, 28 August 2013
27. BBC Radio 4, The Syria Vote: One Day in August, 10 November 2014
28. Interview, Nick Clegg
29. LA Times website, 28 August 2013
30. The Times, 29 August 2013
31. Daily Telegraph, 28 August 2013
32. The Times, 29 August 2013
33. Interview, Nick Boles
34. Interview, Nick Clegg
35. Interview, Michael Gove
36. Hansard, 29 August 2013, columns 1,425–39
37. Ibid., column 1,555
38. Guardian, 30 August 2013
39. BBC News, 4 September 2013
40. Ibid.
41. BBC Radio 4, The Syria Vote: One Day in August, 10 November 2014
42. Interview, Laurence Mann
43. CNN News, 31 August 2013
44. Spectator, 29 August 2013
45. The Times, 30 August 2013
46. Time magazine website, 30 August 2013
47. The Economist, 30 August 2013
48. Interview, William Hague
49. Interview, Julian Astle
50. Anthony Seldon, Diary, 1 September 2013
51. Washington Times, 30 August 2013
52. Associated Press, 1 September 2013
53. LA Times, 14 September 2013
Chapter 28
1. Patrick O’Flynn, Daily Express, 20 August 2011
2. Mail on Sunday, 29 September 2013
3. Spectator, 2 October 2013
4. David Cameron, Conservative Party conference speech, 2 October 2013
5. Interview, Lynton Crosby
6. David Cameron, Conservative Party conference speech, 2 October 2013
7. Julian Glover, ‘The Coalition and Infrastructure’, in Anthony Seldon and Mike Finn (eds), The Coalition Effect, 2010–2015 (2015), p. 214
8. Ibid., pp. 210–11
9. The Coalition: Our Programme for Government (Cabinet Office, 2010), pp. 14, 16, 31
10. Financial Times, 20 August 2013, cited in Glover, ‘The Coalition and Infrastructure’, op. cit., p. 219
11. www.crossrail.co.uk/about-us/funding (accessed 29.05.2015)
12. The Times, 19 March 2012
13. Richard Wellings, Failure to Transform: High-speed Rail and the Regeneration Myth, IEA Current Controversies Paper No. 48, April 2014
14. Interview, Patrick McLoughlin
15. Ibid.
16. Richmond and Twickenham Times, 21 October 2009
17. Hansard, 5 December 2013, column 1,101
18. Interview, George Osborne
19. Hansard, 5 December 2013, column 1,102
20. Interview, Rupert Harrison
21. David Cameron, 6 December 2013
22. Daily Telegraph, 15 December 2013
23. Interview, Owen Paterson
24. BBC News, 28 June 2012
25. Guardian website, 27 December 2013
26. Ibid., 5 February 2014
27. Daily Telegraph, 10 February 2014
28. Interview, Owen Paterson
29. BBC, The Andrew Marr Show, 9 February 2014
Chapter 29
1. Daily Telegraph, 12 May 2010
2. Daily Mail, 15 May 2012
3. Guardian, 25 May 2012
4. Independent, 7 May 2013
5. Hansard, 8 May 2013, column 22
6. Daily Telegraph, 28 June 2013
7. Financial Times, 14 October 2014
8. BBC News, 3 December 2013
9. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, 23 March 2015
10. Gov.uk, ‘UK and China agree £14 billion of trade and investment deals’, 17 June 2014
11. Daily Telegraph, 14 January 2015
12. Financial Times, 27 October 2014
13. Irish Times, 29 November 2013
14. BBC News, 1 December 2010
15. Ibid., 12 September 2011
16. Reuters, 2 August 2012
17. BBC News, 12 February 2015
18. Time, 20 March 2014
19. Interview, Ed Llewellyn
20. Private information
21. Michael Clarke, ‘The Coalition and Foreign Policy’, in Anthony Seldon and Mike Finn (eds), The Coalition Effect, 2010–2015 (2015), p. 360
22. Interview, Sir David Richards
Chapter 30
1. Interview, George Osborne
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Matthew d’Ancona, In It Together: The Inside Story of the Coalition Government (2013), p. 374
5. Martin Lewis, www.moneysavingexpert.com, 19 March 2014
6. Spending Round 2013 (HMT, 2013), p. 26; Autumn Statement 2013 (HMT, 2013), p. 7
7. Budget 2014 (HMT, 2014), p. 26
8. Hansard, 19 March 2014, column 785
9. Ibid., columns 781–94
10. Ibid., column 795
11. Telegraph website, 31 March 2014
12. George Osborne, ‘Chancellor speaks on tax and benefits’ speech, 31 March 2014
13. Sunday Times, 28 February 2014
14. Sun, 31 March 2014
15. Janan Ganesh, George Osborne: The Austerity Chancellor (second edition, 2014), p. 89
16. Paul Goodman, http://conservativehome.blogs.com, 3 March 2015
17. ONS, Regional Labour Market Statistic, 14 May 2014
18. Spectator, 24 June 2014
19. Interview, George Osborne
20. Gov.uk, ‘Long term economic plan for the north-west set out by Prime Minister and Chancellor’, 8 January 2015
21. Gov.uk, ‘Prime Minister and Chancellor visit the set of Emmerdale’, 5 February 2015
Chapter 31
1. LBC, 26 November 2012
2. Daily Telegraph, 18 May 2013
3. Interview, David Cameron
4. Interview, Graham Brady
5. Interview, Liam Fox
6. Interview, Owen Paterson
7. Interview, Matthew d’Ancona
8. Guardian, 26 May 2014
9. Interview, Matthew Goodwin
10. Daily Telegraph website, 28 November 2014
11. Interview, Ken Clarke
12. BBC Poll of Polls, April 2013
13. ‘“Are you serious?” Boris, the Tories and the Voters’, Lord Ashcroft polls, p. 9
14. Jamie Huntman, Guardian, 3 May 2013
15. Independent, 26 May 2014
16. Interview, Craig Oliver
17. BBC News, 28 August 2014
18. The Times, 29 August 2014
19. BBC News, 27 September 2014
20. Interview, Kate Fall
21. BBC, The Andrew Marr Show, 28 September 2014
22. Daily Telegraph, 29 September 2014
23. BBC News, 1 October 2014
24. Interview, Michael Gove
25. Financial Times, 10 October 2014
26. Interview, Lord Feldman
27. BBC News, 18 November 2014
28. YouGov/Sun, 10 November 2014
Chapter 32
1. Matthew d’Ancona, Sunday Telegraph, 20 July 2014
2. The Times, 2 October 2013
3. Alan Smithers, ‘The coalition and society (II): Education’, in Anthony Seldon and Mike Finn (eds), The Coalition Effect, 2010–2015 (2015), p. 289
4. Interview, David Laws
5. Ibid.
6. Interview, Michael Gove
7. Interview, David Cameron
8. DfE, The Importance of Teaching (2010)
9. Daily Mail, 20 June 2012
10. Daily Telegraph, 21 June 2012
11. Interview, Michael Gove
12. Ibid.
13. BBC News, 7 February 2013
14. Observer, 17 February 2013
15. Independent, 19 March 2013
16. Daily Mail, 23 March 2013
17. Independent, 2 April 2013
18. BBC News, 18 May 2013
19. The Times, 1 October 2013
20. Andrew Gimson, ConservativeHome, 15 May 2014
21. TES, 24 April 2015
22. BBC News, 1 February 2014
23. Daily Mail, 5 March 2014
24. Financial Times, 14 March 2014
25. The Times, 17 July 2014
26. Financial Times, 16 June 2014
27. The Times, 4 June 2014; BBC News, 8 June 2014
28. Independent, 4 June 2014
29. Daily Mail, 10 June 2014
30. Ibid., 16 July 2014
31. BBC News, 9 October 2013
32. Independent, 8 June 2014
33. Daily Telegraph, 20 July 2014
Chapter 33
1. CNN News, 8 September 2014; Herald Scotland, 6 September 2014; Daily Mail, 4 September 2014
2. Guardian, 16 December 2014
3. Interview, Lord Strathclyde
4. Guardian website, 7 February 2014
5. Daily Telegraph, 20 February 2014
6. Interview, Nick Clegg
7. Daily Telegraph, 30 September 2013
8. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-26166794
9. Guardian, 15 December 2014
10. Interview, Nick Clegg
11. The Times, 4 June 2014
12. BBC News, 5 June 2014
13. Guardian, 11 June 2014
14. Ibid., 16 December 2014
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. Silver Jubilee Address to Parliament, 4 May1977, http://www.royal.gov.uk/ImagesandBroadcasts/Historic%20speeches%20and%20broadcasts/SilverJubileeaddresstoParliament4May1977.aspx
18. Sunday Times, 7 September 2014
19. Telegraph website, 14 September 2014
20. Guardian website, 8 September 2014
21. Bloomberg, 15 September 2014
22. Daily Mail, 13 September 2014
23. Interview, Craig Oliver
24. BBC News, 10 September 2014
25. Scottish Conservatives website, 15 September 2014
26. Daily Record, 23 November 2013
27. Guardian, 21 April 2014
28. Daily Record, 16 September 2014
29. Guardian, 16 December 2014
30. The Economist, 19 September 2014
31. City AM transcript, 17 September 2014
32. Sky News, 19 September 2014
33. BBC News, 19 September 2014
34. Guardian, 15 December 2014
35. Gov.uk, 19 September 2014
36. Guardian, 15 December 2014
37. The Times, 20 September 2014
38. Interview, Michael Gove
39. Observer, 21 September 2014
40. Sunday Times, 21 September 2014
41. Sky News, 23 September 2014
Chapter 34
1. Observer, 29 June 2014
2. The Times, 27 June 2014
3. Sunday Telegraph, 29 June 2014
4. Guardian, 13 June 2014
5. Observer, 7 March 2014
6. Guardian website, 27 February 2014
7. Sunday Telegraph, 15 March 2014
8. Financial Times, 27 May 2014
9. Sunday Times, 1 June 2014
10. Financial Times, 27 May 2014
11. Der Spiegel, 4 June 2014
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Wall Street Journal, 24 February 2014
15. Mathias Döpfner, ‘Juncker muss Präsident werden’, Bild, 30 May 2014
16. BBC News, 30 May 2014
17. Interview, Ken Clarke
18. Daily Telegraph, 4 November 2014
19. Sunday Telegraph, 8 June 2014
20. Guardian, 11June 2014
21. Daily Telegraph, 29 June 2014
22. Deutsche Welle, 10 June 2014
23. Sunday Times, 8 June 2014; Sun, 8 June 2014; Channel 4 News, 27 June 2014
24. Guardian, 13 June 2014
25. Wall Street Journal, 25 June 2014
26. BBC News, 26 June 2014
27. Ibid.
28. Independent on Sunday, 29 June 2014
29. MailOnline, 17 July 2014
30. BBC News, 8 October 2014
Chapter 35
1. Guardian, 18 September 2014
2. Reuters, 2 November 2014
3. Interview, Lord Feldman
4. Nick Robinson, BBC, 29 September 2014
5. Spectator website, 1 October 2014
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Interview, Craig Oliver
9. Nick Robinson, BBC, 1 October 2014
10. Daily Mail, 1 October 2014
11. Spectator website, 1 October 2014
12. Ibid.
13. Sunday Times, 7 December 2014
14. Ibid.
15. Hansard, 3 December 2014, column 308
16. BBC Radio 4, Today, 4 December 2014
Chapter 36
1. John Curtice, Financial Times, 10 October 2014
2. BBC News, 16 November 2014
3. Ibid., 8 August 2014
4. Interview, Lynton Crosby
5. Daily Telegraph, 10 January 2010
6. Guardian, 24 April 2015
7. Interview, David Cameron
8. Daily Telegraph, 14 April 2011
9. Guardian, 24 April 2015
10. Guardian website, 25 March 2013
11. Financial Times, 26 November 2013
12. Matthew d’Ancona, In It Together: The Inside Story of the Coalition Government (second edition, 2014), pp. 393–4
13. BBC News, 19 November 2014
14. David Cameron, Conservative Party conference speech, 1 October 2014; Daily Telegraph, 27 November 2014
15. Daily Telegraph, 27 November 2014
16. Huffington Post, 28 November 2014
17. Spectator website, 15 October 2014
18. Interview, Ken Clarke
19. Daily Telegraph, 13 November 2014
20. BBC News, 28 November 2014
21. UKIP website, 28 November 2014
22. Guardian, 29 November 2014
23. BBC News, 28 November 2014
24. Ibid.
25. MailOnline, 28 November 2014
Chapter 37
1. Guy Lodge and Illias Thoms, ‘The coalition and the Labour party’, in Anthony Seldon and Mike Finn (eds), The Coalition Effect 2010–2015 (2015), p. 541
2. Anthony Seldon, Blair (2004), p. 367
3. The Times, 22 July 2014
4. The Times, 15 January 2015
5. White House Fact Sheet, US–United Kingdom Cybersecurity Cooperation, 16 January 2015
6. Patrick Cockburn, The Rise of Islamic State: ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution (2015), p. 27
7. David Cameron, speech at the UN General Assembly, 25 September 2014, https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/pm-speech-at-the-un-general-assembly-2014
8. YouGov, 26 September 2014, https://yougov.co.uk/news/2014/09/26/isis-how-majority-came-favour-air-strikes/
9. Hansard, 26 September 2014, columns 1,255–68
10. Ibid., columns 1,268–72
11. BBC News, 30 September 2014
12. Sunday Telegraph, 17 October 2010
13. Daily Telegraph, 8 March 2012
14. Ibid., 3 June 2012
15. Ibid.
16. Guardian, 14 September 2014
17. New York Times, 18 February 2015
18. David Cameron, speech on radicalism and Islamic extremism, Munich Security Conference, 5 February 2011
19. Ibid.
20. Interview, Sir David Richards
21. Guardian website, 7 January 2015
22. Ibid.
Chapter 38
1. Interview, Andrew Mitchell
2. Interview, Danny Alexander
3. Telegraph blog, 28 January 2011
4. Interview, Justine Greening
5. Guardian website, 9 March 2015; OECD website, DAC member profile: the Netherlands (accessed 8 July 2015)
6. Wall Street Journal, 5 June 2014
7. The Times, 1 July 2014
8. USA Today, 31 August 2014
9. Daily Telegraph, 4 June 2015
10. Hansard, 19 October 2010, column 799
11. ‘UK should do more in Iraq, says Committee’, Parliament website, 5 February 2015 (accessed 13 July 2015)
12. Ibid., 2 March 2015
13. International Institute for Strategic Studies, The Military Balance 2015, 11 February 2015
14. Malcolm Chalmers, Mind the Gap: The MoD’s Emerging Budgetary Challenge, Royal United Services Institute, 9 March 2015
15. Washington Post, 21 May 2015
16. Ibid.
17. Financial Times, 11 May 2015
18. BBC News, 6 February 2015
19. The Times, 23 April 2015
20. Ibid., 27 April 2015
Chapter 39
1. Interview, Rupert Harrison
2. The Times, 19 March 2015
3. BBC News, 27 June 2013
4. Interview, George Osborne
5. Hansard, 18 March 2015, column 770
6. Ibid., column 779
7. Ibid., column 780
8. Sunday Telegraph, 22 March 2015
9. Observer, 22 March 2015
10. The Times, 19 March 2015
11. Ibid., 20 March 2015
12. Financial Times, 16 March 2015
13. Guardian, 30 April 2015
14. Interview, Nick Clegg
15. Ibid.
16. Interview, William Hague
17. Interview, Graham Brady
18. Sunday Times, 10 May 2015
19. Guardian, 6 April 2015
Chapter 40
1. Interview, Liz Sugg
2. The Times, 25 April 2015
3. Daily Telegraph, 16 May 2015
4. Interview, Liz Sugg
5. Guardian website, 27 April 2015
6. Interview, George Osborne
7. Interview, Lynton Crosby
8. Ibid.
9. Interview, Craig Oliver
10. The Times, 10 March 2015
11. Daily Telegraph, 4 May 2015
12. Interview, Stephen Gilbert
13. Ipsos MORI, 30 October 2014
14. Interview, Stephen Gilbert
15. Interview, George Osborne
16. Interview, Nick Clegg
17. Interview, George Osborne
18. Interview, Stephen Gilbert
19. Interview, Liz Sugg
20. Interview, Andrew Cooper
21. Interview, Craig Oliver
22. Interview, George Osborne
23. Guardian website, 6 May 2015
24. Cabinet Office Manual (2011), paragraph 2.12, pp. 14–15
25. BBC News, 24 March 2015
26. Interview, Nick Clegg
27. Theresa May, ‘We will win by being the party for all’, ConservativeHome Victory 2015 conference, 9 March 2013
28. Interview, William Hague
29. YouGov, 6 May 2015
30. ICM/Guardian, 6 May 2015
Epilogue
1. BBC, 7 May 2015
2. Interview, George Osborne
3. Interview, Liz Sugg
4. Interview, Kate Fall
5. Interview, Craig Oliver
6. David Cameron, victory speech in Witney, 8 May 2015
7. YouTube, 8 May 2015
8. Interview, George Osborne
9. David Cameron, victory speech in Downing Street, 8 May 2015
