Blood brothers
ONE MORE piece of Treasury folklore must now be making the rounds of those circular corridors. If the Chancellor is, by his job's definition, at war with the spenders, it follows that he needs an ally in Cabinet, who can only be the Prime Minis- ter. Otherwise all he can do is to sit and sulk in a minority of one, wondering whether he should resign or just wait to be sacked. There are plenty of recent exam- ples to show that governments do not run smoothly if their two biggest wheels are revolving in opposite directions. Of course we are told for the record that between the two Downing Street neighbours all is per- fect love and harmony. They are blood brothers. The water-gardeners at their two town houses add that Cain and Abel were blood brothers, too.
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