You appoint good people, and trust their decisions, but you have to know when to step in. William Hague has really helped me, because he made all the mistakes the first time round.
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You appoint good people, and trust their decisions, but you have to know when to step in. William Hague has really helped me, because he made all the mistakes the first time round.
To make decisions in the long-term interests of the country you have to take quite tough decisions quite early on so that you can get things done within the life of a Parliament.
In many ways that's more difficult and complicated to do, but it's no less an ambition, it's no less a task, and at its heart it's dealing with the issues of family breakdown, welfare dependency, failing schools, crime and the problems that we see in too many of our communities.
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