Up front and honest.

I've always been a fan of Ken Clarke, who seems to me to be one of the few politicians who tells it like it is, and doesn't try to dress things up. His recent statement that, if they do win the next election, a Conservative Government will have to assess their priorities in the light of the mess they will inherit, and that their pledge to increase the inheritance tax threshold to £1m may have to wait its turn, seems to me to be no more than common sense.