Hopefully that will be seen as a response, a leadership responding to an issue and therefore one's authority, while it's not as high if you didn't have the problem, it does mean that people say 'well he used his authority to come up with a solution in double-quick time that met with broader public acceptance.
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Explaining why there were radical Government alterations to a budgetary position in October 2008, with the alterations forced by angry public reaction.