‘Do as we say’ won’t do

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Alexander Larman

What happened to the Rishi Sunak I knew at school?

At least the Irish are being asked. Britain has been denied even that, despite all three parties promising a vote in their manifestos. Our ‘yes’ literally lies in a vault in Rome, sent there by Labour whips instructed by a prime minister who lacks a proper mandate to govern.

The murkiest postal ballot fraud in Britain is, of course, nowhere near the scale of the blatant ballot-selling in Afghanistan — but we have far less of an excuse for it. If we’re going to champion democracy, we must practise it properly first.