The pub garden smoking ban is a drag on our freedoms

It’s a nice phrase but it’s also pretty close to the diametric opposite of her approach. I think what she meant was: “Where there is discord, may my side of the discord prevail and my defeated enemies learn to live with it.” The whole Assisi vibe turned out to be astonishingly insincere. Similarly, this pub garden ban took me back to the current prime minister’s own words outside 10 Downing Street on his first day when he promised a government that would “tread more lightly on your lives”.