Different? Please?
William Hague via Twitter (but in the Queen’s Speech debate) announced today that the UK would for the first time be making public the maximum number of nuclear warheads it holds.
On the one hand, hurrah for openness and leading by example. And yes it’s good that the announcement will presumably be made to the House of Commons first, before it’s made anywhere else (have they learnt the lesson of leaking the Queen’s Speech?).
On the other, though, announcing that you’re going to be announcing something is not really what I expect from the new politics.
Let’s not have five years of pre-re-post announcements. Let’s just get on with it.
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