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That is the core of it. The intellectual battle has been lost. The only remaining question is whether the political one will be fought or forfeited.

I went to a coffee shop across from Parliament this lunchtime. A nurse in scrubs was staring at her phone, refreshing a news page. “I don’t care who wins,” she told me. “I just need to know if I can pay my rent on the 1st. You lot in the media talk about ‘process.’ I talk about my daughter’s school shoes.” jessie ames bbc

It is easy, in this insulated Gothic village of power, to treat politics as a sport. But the delay in this bill has real consequences. The bill contains emergency funding for the insolvent steelworks in Port Talbot. It holds the renewal of the student loan interest cap. Every hour of infighting adds another question mark to the pay packets of 1.2 million public sector workers awaiting a settlement. That is the core of it