‘It’s not good enough just to appear on your doorstep at election times,’ says the leaflet from Chuka Umunna, my local Labour candidate. Which is presumably why he hasn’t.
This is not to imply that I have never seen him. I once caught a glimpse of him galloping past my house.

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