You would think we were in the final three months of a general election campaign, not three and a half years out. Everywhere you look there’s a party leader giving a press conference. Demanding attention from a public that just wants to be given a break.
Even the news channels are losing interest. Sending along a reporter more on the off-chance someone says something idiotic, than in any expectation of anyone committing hard news. Well, anything more idiotic than usual. This far out from an election we’re just dealing in political fever dreams.
On Tuesday morning it was the Tories and Reform fighting for airtime. Appearing simultaneously, and less than half a mile away from each other in central London.
It was hard to escape the feeling this was Westminster talking to itself. Existential crises being played out in real time as pre-budget statements of little importance from Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage.
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