Tories must prove they can be trusted with power
According to the Daily Telegraph’s commentary:
The Labour Government is behaving like a hot-air balloonist who is heading unerringly for the treetops and disaster. Ballast is being jettisoned in a desperate quest for greater height. Over the side this week went plans to part-privatise Royal Mail – dumped, said Lord Mandelson, because the market conditions were not propitious, though the real reason was that Labour backbenchers were in open revolt against the plan and could not be ignored by a weak Prime Minister. Dumped, too, were compulsory identity cards – that, at least, was the impression given to the public by Alan Johnson, the new Home Secretary; in reality, the national identity register will continue to be developed until such time as a future government scraps it. Labour’s balloon, though, continues to fall. Some in the party still think they are weighed down most by Gordon Brown and warn that the option of dropping him over the side has yet to be closed off. Autumn will be a dangerous season for the Prime Minister.
