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A proper regulator would be a simple way to hugely improve life for many thousands of people.
If on election day they think the result is a foregone conclusion, then they are more likely to use their vote in different ways.
I am arguing that there is some limited space for radical candour with the electorate on the difficult choices facing the country in the 2020s.
In some campaigns, the end result is overwhelmingly likely before a stump has been erected. This is not one of those occasions.
The trend of the public-facing political aide near the top of government will do more harm than good.
It would also be dishonest to claim that the thought of voting Liberal Democrat did not flicker momentarily as we’ve veered towards knuckle-head, pound-shop Orbanism.
Governing is harder than campaigning – and doing so with next to no majority in an emerging constitutional crisis is another order altogether.
Until the Party is prepared to have this debate with itself, then he will continue to be at the mercy of a Brexit tiger that he helped unleash.
None of what follows is impossible and, if there is a common thread, it is the self-interest of MPs in avoiding an election before leaving the EU.
Onward puts the importance placed on the environment amongst under 35s in roughly the same category as housing and education.
Liz Truss, and to a lesser extent Rishi Sunak, have been reticent in making a case for the achievements of the period. Is that because there are so few?