“The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.”
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One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative parties in British politics. Both the Labour and Conservative parties have constantly and repeatedly failed to honour promises they have made about reforming, cleaning, modernising our clapped-out system.
I don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom, ' by Jonathan Franzen, a great big brick of a book, and I'm loving it.
I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don't think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school.
I'm very lucky. I am one of those people who is able to go home, shut the front door and completely focus on the kids.
