Shape up, you rotter!

Hammond, the current Chancellor of the Exchequer, reckons he’s pretty fireproof now, but he’s going to have to polish his act to survive. He comes across as another Mr. Woolsey of the civilian oversight committee for the Stargate programme: he knows the monetary cost of everything and he doesn’t even consider the human cost, except in terms of pounds and pence. He is definitely not party leader material.