How not to save the pound
The Conservatives are making it more likely that Britain will scrap the pound and adopt the euro
AS YOU can imagine, many absorbing press releases about this and that have landed on Bagehot's desk since the start of the present election campaign. But only one has been significant in the way that Sherlock Holmes found the failure of the dog to bark in the night significant. This was the one whose sender promised to say nothing until the campaign was over.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “How not to save the pound”
From the May 26th 2001 edition
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