I genuinely believe that anyone occupying the position of PM in the UK would be “detested” by the majority of the population. We have become ungovernable. There are no quick fixes and the job of finding the right path between “growth” and “welfare” is seemingly an impossible one to achieve.

For once I agree with Simon Jenkins’ views.

I wonder how many of those 50% of people who rate immigration as a “most important issue” are affected by it in any shape or form (and in a negative way) in their daily lives.

The story needs to arrive first if it is to go away. The statements from Farage’s fellow pupils at Dulwich College were ignored by the mainstream media.

Too often BBC News takes its cue from what is being said in the newspapers rather than deciding how, as an impartial national broadcaster, it should be covering an issue.

It’s a good point. There has been talk of building new reservoirs. Shouldn’t data centers pay a reservoir tax proportionate to how much water they consume and this tax actually goes towards the building of new reservoirs?

At the very least they may support rejoining the customs union. Labour has opened up clear space for a pro business party.

A manifesto is not a narrative. Politics is won and lost on ideas, not manifestos. If Labour cannot tell us clearly what its vision is, and act on that vision rather thank tinkering at the edges then it will continue to lose support.

Not so much a make-or-break budget but one which shapes the direction that this government is taking us in. It has failed until now to build a narrative and (hopefully) this budget will help to create some sort of vision.

This tax seems fair and reasonable to me. But - and at the same time - the government should unfreeze the rise in fuel duty.

British food - bland. American food - bland. But thanks to our respective immigrant populations we both get great access to (non-bland) food from across the world.

I have not attacked anyone, unlike you who have attacked an i journalist.

How I am I to know that mediafactcheckbias is not biased?

Astonishing that so many people can go through life completely ignorant of how a country works. Is there a case for “citizenship” classes in school or would this become a massive political football?

I suspect that - as Labour gets squeezed on the left by the Greens - they will be forced into a pro-EU position. Unfortunately Starmer has given himself little room for manoeuvre by his ill- thought-through comments about rejoining not being an option.