Twenty Years On

In the last days of the Major Government, Tony Blair announced that he was going to withdraw Child Benefit from Sixth Formers, and Hilary Armstrong vigorously defended that policy to me.

They never did it. But even so. Truly, Cameron is the Heir to Blair, unrestrained by Gordon Brown and the Labour Party.

There is even more chance of all of this from the Lib Dems, though. As anyone who has ever been paying attention has always known.