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We all need a holiday: even MPs!

EVERY summer it’s the same story: why is such-and-such politician on holiday when the country is in a mess? This year, both Sir Keir Starmer and Boris Johnson have been rebuked for daring to take a family break.

Such criticism is idiotic. First, because the country is always in some kind of mess, so there’s never a good time to go away. Second, politicians ought to be firing on all cylinders, not worn out and exhausted. But perhaps most importantly, holidays allow us to see life from a different perspective.

And that, in the blinkered world of Westminster, is never a bad thing.

• THERE’S much talk of a ‘return to the Seventies’. I remember those times, as a youngster. It was quite exciting to do things by candlelight and it didn’t matter that we couldn’t watch TV as we didn’t own one. These days it’s very different. Our internet-dependent lives are reliant on electricity. Even doorbells, landlines and cars need electricity. Forget the Seventies: power blackouts will feel like a return to the Stone Age.

Sarah Vine ON Sunday

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