Don't fuel the machine

摘要

When you sit in the centre of Government, inhabiting the hallowed - if rather pokey - offices at Number 10, you feel pressure the whole time. Apart from the own-goals to look out for, the booby traps, the parliamentary ambushes, the internal squabbles, the unanticipated real-world events that descend on you, there is the constant feeling of a need to control the agenda.