It must feel discouraging. Imagine winning election after election. Throw in a couple of referendums for good measure. You’ve earned the power to pass laws, move fast and break things. You also enjoy the latitude to appoint coteries and contemporaries to top jobs across the bureaucracy. Yet you look around and still feel as if your side is losing.
The brouhaha over the BBC, Gary Lineker and his tweets about immigration policy have dominated the news cycle for days. In some ways, this is an absurdity. First, it distracts from the practicalities of the Illegal Migration Bill, which returns to the Commons for its second reading today.
