“Merkeling along has not served the country poorly (not for nothing is the chancellor still its most popular politician) . . . But the practice of deferring many difficult decisions, taking others at the last-minute and wrapping the whole package in a soothingly apolitical vagueness has left behind a trail of unresolved tensions and challenges.” (New Statesman, 11/21/19; The Guardian, 11/22/19)
Merkeling along has not served the country poorly
