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I personally wonder if it would be better if the whip could only be used for manifesto items, or whether that would just have “the American effect” where lobbyists effectively buy individual...
Voting records have been covered in depth on the podcast you mention. You can only truly rely on voting records where there was a free vote to attack a candidate’s past, though all sides use voting history as a stick to beat other politicians with.
A political party in government has...