But it also reflects the ability of some on the centre-right, especially Germany's Angela Merkel and France's Nicolas Sarkozy, to steal the left's clothes, with policies such as a bigger state and tougher regulation, and to persuade voters that the economic crisis came from abroad.
Henrietta Ludgate operates a zero clothes mile policy - all her fabrics are either made in the UK or were thrown away on her doorstep.
Leonetti, Carrie (2012) "When the Emperor Has No Clothes III: Personnel Policies and Conflicts of Interest in Prosecutors' Offices," Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy: Vol. 22 : Iss. 1, Article 2.
These measures, aimed at raising productivity, steal some of the Conservatives' policy clothes.One opinion poll briefly placed the Conservatives ahead after the Gomery report.
(This is separate from what it became at its worst: a set of rules about policy, clothes, sound or toughness). He is not an ideologue or a demagogue.
Two comprehensive Australian studies have explored children's barriers for recess PA from a qualitative perspective and identified a lack of facilities/equipment, bullying, school policy, clothes, lack of teacher support [ 15, 16], lack of space, weather [ 15], playground aesthetics, fundamental movement skills and recess duration [ 16] are important barriers to recess PA.
May pushes boundaries with clothes as well as policies.
And the SNP brazenly stole Labour's leftwing clothes in terms of policies.
You've stolen our ideas, say Tories Labour and the Conservatives were embroiled in an angry row after David Cameron claimed that Gordon Brown had stolen his party's clothes by including 12 policies previously floated by the Tories.
He said the Coalition was the best of a bad set of options and he intended to be a voice of reason and would speak up "when the emperor is wearing no clothes as far as policy is concerned".
