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Tory MP implies they've already won

18 Mar 2010 Voices

Garreth Spillane is blogging from the Acevo Conservative summit. In his first blog from the afternoon session he reports on Philip Hammond's address.

The afternoon session is focussing heavily (exclusively?) on social enterprise. Conservative MPs are focusing heavily on the rehabilitation of offenders. It is one of the three main areas of this policy area (the other two are welfare-to-work and public health).

Philip Hammond (pictured), who initially launched his address in a tense implying he was already ensconced at the Treasury, is keen to remove structural obstacles within government departments to free up funding and allow greater scope for the implementation of new ideas.