This essay, on the values gap between voters and politicians, was my Observer column this week.  It was published on 5 July 2020, under the headline ‘What are politicians for if they can’t change public opinion?’ ‘We look towards the other England and wonder how it could be so provincial, so backward, so completely out of step with the times. And then we turn our backs on it… That is the really alarming thing about this national division.’ That might have been […]

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