Even if they aren't essential, there's a certain symbolism in cancelling big headline northern projects that I (from my uninformed southern viewpoint) suspect people will have taken on boar… (View Post)

They're clearly hoping to win on aggregate... (View Post)

This raises the question -- in your average constituency, what percentage of voters have any perception of their local MP at all (ie are not simply voting for/against a party)? I suppose for constitu… (View Post)

The local picture can look very different, though -- for example here cases have been rocketing up over the last couple of weeks: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/cases?areaType=ltla&areaN… (View Post)

Eventually, yes. But my understanding from the discussions back when delta-related travel bans were on the table was that a ban on travel from new-variant hotspots could buy you time, because if you … (View Post)