Boris Johnson's power grab gives him the whip hand, but only in the short term | Inside Westminster

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Power struggles between the Treasury and Downing Street are nothing new. In the 1960s, Harold Wilson set up a Department of Economic Affairs as a rival powerbase, but it was outgunned as the Treasury fought back. It always does, writes Andrew Grice

got them to recite his key election pledges in front of the TV cameras that were briefly allowed into the cabinet room.

 

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And we Scots can whip him too right back

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