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.