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But her real test will be whether she can improve on her Labour predecessor's attempt and reform our economy into one that recognises that spending on infrastructure is not a cost, it is an investment. The Treasury dominates government, whether Tory or Labour, to a degree that is hardly imaginable to most people, who assume, reasonably enough, that it is the prime minister who makes the big decisions. There's a very splendid brass plate on the door of 10 Downing Street, but it doesn't say "Office of the Prime Minister". [Extracted from the article] |