My eldest suffered
from colic and it was truly horrendous — I look back on those days as being so dark — I had a traumatic
labour, breastfeeding hadn't gone to plan and I was utterly
exhausted.
Spending was tackled, the unions were contained, the City was unleashed, and a series of important supply - side reforms helped to deliver a long boom; and when the
exhausted and fractious Tories were eventually chucked out in 1997, it was
Labour that profited — politically —
from those reforms.