The Conservatives' Vacation of Planning Reform as an Issue Is an Opening for Labour

There is quite a sizable bit of the electorate that might respond well to some honesty. The fact that the Conservatives have vacated planning reform as an issue is a bit of an opening for Labour, which they are exploiting. If you're not offering hope, which is the most basic currency of politics, I don't really know where you are. And if you're in that state, there's an argument for saying that democracy itself has sort of failed,. That's a trouble. It's not just hope but having answers to big questions," he says.