Dear Father Christmas, please fill my stocking with the following goodies:
A referendum on Britain’s future in Europe… Or, a Linguaphone course to brush up my German.
A new shadow chancellor. The old one doesn’t really work any more.
A straitjacket to stop George Alagiah waving his arms around so much when he is presenting the BBC News.

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