This has been a year of three UK Prime Ministers, the first since 1852 (I gift you that pub quiz question). We have also had three Business Secretaries, three Environment Secretaries and four Chancellors. If there is a Brexit dividend, it is certainly not political stability. The good news for the end of the year is that we now have a functioning government, not one lurching from crisis to crisis. But if the grown-ups are back in charge, they are not in total charge. A government elected with a majority of 80 still has to kowtow to the Brexit ultras and net zero sceptics on crucial issue...
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