Does the coalition government have a strategic plan, other than deficit reduction? To date most of its highly publicised decisions smack of ad hoc initiatives, with little sense of cohesion. Indeed the main motive for many of its policy announcements appears to be to boost the profile of individual ministers. This is particularly true of CLG where the secretary of state, Eric Pickles, and the housing minister, Grant Shapps, have been vying to attract attention with a series of high profile announcements.
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