Over a period of three days between 11 and 13 May each secretary of state was called up to the fourth floor of CCHQ to see their sections of the manifesto and provide their comments. Many were content. Liam Fox glanced at his section, said ‘Great,’ and was gone. Hammond, happy that he had got his way on tax, ‘didn’t kick up very much of a fuss at all’. But others found the process humiliating. ‘We were treated as if we were going in to MI5 to see top-secret documents,’ said one minister. ‘I was ushered into a sealed box, told I could read my bit while someone watched to make sure I didn’t take
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