Oh dear Vince, you mustn’t be taped talking about bears and woods and that sort of thing…
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The heavily edited transcript of theTelegraph’s Cable tape is here.
Nothing earth-shattering. Slow news day at the Torygraph, is it?
The one potentially explosive line is this:
…they haven’t yet done winter fuel payments, but that’s coming, I think.
But that is in the context of the universality of child benefit, so probably refers to ideas to end winter fuel payments to rich people, which is not altogether surprising.
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You spoke too soon….
…not for the first time!