Now his government has nothing to lose, the secretary of state for housing seems to have found a curious kind of freedom
There are times in politics when a party just has to go for broke. But those times are not necessarily when it is winning.
It’s when the game is finally up, and defeat looks virtually guaranteed, that for some politicians there can be a weird feeling of liberation. The choice is now between hanging around waiting miserably for the inevitable, or grasping a few nettles on the way out – by which I mean tackling the things previously shoved into a box marked “too difficult”.
Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist
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