Ben Lucas

The coalition might have lost its first Cabinet minister after only 18 days, but generally it has got off to a good start. There’s been a lot of sunshine politics, not least in the No 10 garden. The themes for the new era have been set out – the Big Society, political and banking reform and localism. But it will get much tougher from now on as the overarching priority of deficit reduction asserts itself. Read more...