“Get Brexit Done, Unleash Britain’s Potential” was the 2019 slogan. The first was achieved in short order. The second is yet to be delivered.
Policymakers should be asking themselves whose quality of life worsens thanks to the current unplanned mess.
We continue our series, putting this year’s local elections under the magnifying glass to find changes and trends.
Don’t assume that it will necessarily happen only after the boundary review has come into effect.
This can give the Tories a tremendous advantage in a democracy because the public, as a whole, does not have fixed views either.
The cat of Tory tax rises has fewer than nine lives. Especially if these breach manifesto pledges and are generationally unfair.
The further the act of leaving the EU recedes, the more 2019’s Tory voters will move on – as two recent by-elections reminded us.
In my view, no Labour seat in County Durham is safe. The remaining seats all have majorities under 6,000.
Without the changes to the boundaries, by the time of the next election this data would be a quarter of a century out of date.
We cannot assume voters enjoy secrecy and freedom when marking a ballot paper at home.
I really worry when so many in our party and in the media think that is all over for the centre-left.
From Brexit, to the vaccine rollout, to trade, to Hong Kong, Johnson has plenty of good stories to tell – if not blown off course by Scotland.
Should he be handcuffed under public restraint, like a suspect watched by Priti Patel? Or freed to run wild through Alpine meadows, like Julie Andrews?
They may very well decide that if the establishment wants Johnson gone so badly he must be doing something right.