Membership in new National Security Council seems little changed from the current council, which is chaired by the Prime Minister and includes all the cabinet ministers in charge of defense, foreign affairs, finance, economics, land and transport, and internal affairs, as well as public safety.
And Bush Senior was in the unenviable position of cleaning up a mess left by his predecessor, Ronald Reagan, who espoused an economic philosophy of tax cuts and increased defense spending that Bush Senior dubbed Voodoo Economics when he was running for the presidency against Reagan in 1980.