MARTIN JOHNSON

Listening to the various spoutings of the politicians in the run up to the General Election, do you ever get the feeling that you’ve heard it all before? You do? Well, the answer’s simple. It’s because you have heard it all before.
I’m not sure exactly when it became the fashion for politicians to tell us in the morning what they’re going to say in the afternoon, but ever since the election was announced, you flick on your breakfast radio to hear things like: “Jeremy Corbyn will say today that far from being a woolly minded pacifist who ...