A populist Prime Minister, desperate to stay in power, willing to do anything – no matter how abysmal it may be in policy terms and what awkward precedents it may set. An ambitious Treasurer who knows his leader’s posturings are bad economics – and, in the long term, worse politics?
A populist Prime Minister, desperate to stay in power, willing to do anything – no matter how abysmal it may be in policy terms and what awkward precedents it may set. An ambitious Treasurer who knows his leader’s posturings are bad economics – and, in the long term, worse politics?

Yup, you guessed it.