| It will be his job to decide where the budgetary axe will fall. The Lib Dems are passionate about their pro-Europeanism, their liberal take on crime and their dovishness on military and foreign matters. |
| Since unemployment seems likely to be a bigger threat than rising inflation for years to come, such dovishness seems appropriate. |
| Both were seen as having shifted from hawkishness to dovishness on the peace process. |
| That would actually endear him to Republicans, who might be wary of Ms Yellen's brand of dovishness. |
| And it would stop attacking Ben Bernanke for his supposed dovishness and recognize that if anything monetary policy has probably been too tight. |
