Most Tory MPs either have no elections in their seats or only for a minority of their councillors, often in a minority of wards.
Geographical and demographic differences make it impossible to decide who ‘won’ the battle with Coronavirus.
‘I think they have not done what the science would’ve told them they should do’, he adds about the UK government.
Any solution to the divide between authority to order lockdowns and responsibility for paying for it must mean more accountability, not less.
With hardly any debate, the Government wants to introduce legislation that will alter our way of life. Not if tens of Tory MPs have their say.
Also: Drakeford strikes a deal with the Welsh Nationalists in Cardiff Bay; Sturgeon insists she’s going nowhere.
But prisons policy won’t gain more priority from politicians without doing so from the rest of us.
Also: DUP leader threatens early Stormont election over the Protocol; Scottish Labour councillor defects to the Conservatives.
Labour just blame others. But next May the voters will have the chance for a new start in the Welsh capital.
Also; does consenting to indefinitely extending grace periods show the EU finally gets the need to change the Protocol?
Mark Drakeford and his ministers are never slow to demand more powers, but seem much less keen on proper accountability.
The UK had one of the best vaccine programmes, but it kept its nightclubs closed for longer than France and Germany.
The time for the restoration of our freedoms is here, and I’m not talking ‘liberty-lite’, but the ‘full-fat’ version.
Large-scale power projects would also strengthen the Anglo-American alliance and make a big contribution to ‘levelling up’.