“Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.”
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You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.
The test of leadership for David Cameron was actually to bring the British Conservative Party back in to the mainstream.
People feel politics isn't about their lives.
My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics.