that, though, can be harder to do if ministers keep changing at a record pace. we asked the institute for government to look at this with us. this chart shows the number of cabinet appointments each year, the red years had general elections, 2022 has had more than twice as many and this chart shows how long chancellors have stayed in post. normally they last for years. jeremy hunt is the fourth in four months. and this is education. since 2010, there have been ten education secretaries. one of them, michelle donelan, lasted less than 36 hours. and all of this chopping and changing has consequences. it is destabilising, it makes it really, really difficult to take forward some of those long—term policy developments. perhaps because of this, rishi sunak was urged to draw on experience. rachel wolf wrote the 2019 conservative manifesto. on monday she advised...