The Problem With Localism in Politics

It's crazy that we still have a situation where MPs in order to vote have to spend 15 minutes on each division traipsing through the lobbies, running back to restaurants at the division belt sounding. It's the one bit of our lives where you are trying to slow things down as opposed to speed things up and make them more efficient. We've got a problem at the moment in terms of having an obsession about localism in our politics. Britain just isn't big enough to really warrant that sort of thing. And also, is it right that you want your MPs to be spending so much time worrying about whether in someone's council flat they've got a leak?