This endless aggression is a tired way of conducting democracy. As we rebuild the House of Commons, let’s remake politics too
Can there be a silver lining to the disaster that is Covid? It happens in wars when societies shift focus and priority. It should happen in pandemics, too.
Boris Johnson has adopted a presidential style of government. He rules, as we saw on Sunday, by television performance and press conferences during which he is in control. Apart from his weekly fisticuffs with Keir Starmer at prime minister’s questions, that is all the Johnson we get. As the political theorist and activist Thomas Paine once said, he touches the Commons “with an opium wand, and it sleeps obedience”.
Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist
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