The sober, irreplaceable Philip Hammond

Cogitamus - Where Gordon Brown and George Osborne gave us doorstoppers, filled to the gunwales with highly political gimmicks (Osborne even once announced £40m to be spent on the Internet of Things solely so he could make a joke about Ed Milibands two kitchens), spreadsheet Philas he has been known since his time at the Ministry of Defenceproduced a slim, sober, statement so low-key as to seem transplanted from the deliberately dull world of the German Bundestag into the boisterous and adv