The government sees this as a key step in its plan to modernise working conditions and create a more family-friendly working environment.
The 78-year-old said that he regards the current theatrical fashion for modernising a work as a curse.
Where Eyre consciously modernised the work is in pacing: his version, which has since transferred to the West End and runs until 8 March came in at 90 minutes without an interval.
At the same time there has generally been a sense of modernising forces at work, of a flushing out into the light from the dark days of the 70s and 80s when football was pretty much left to rot and fester like an obsolete piece of industrial plant.
Mr Cook's position as leader of the Commons, where he has done much to modernise MPs working hours while losing the battle for a more democratic upper chamber, can be easily filled - most probably by the current chief whip, Hilary Armstrong.
The biggest chunk of that covering work on modernising the country's nuclear weapons is to increase by 7%.
Leaders of the world's richest nations resolved to finish in 2015 work on modernising international tax rules to address the issue of companies shifting profits and reducing government tax bases.
While it's true that the big six have severely distorted the retail market, their biggest crime will not be mentioned anywhere: that they have been acting as a massive brake on work towards modernising and decarbonising Britain's power sector.
… You have to modernise, do political work.
One of his work-streams became modernising 17th century texts for stage and radio productions.
