Speaking in the House, the Justice Secretary Chris Grayling just said:
“The last Government was obsessed with pilots. Sometimes you just have to believe in something and do it.”
Yeah, what an awful Government Labour were, with their “pilot schemes” and their “evidence”, and their “trial and error”. Far better just to go with your gut Chris, and possibly make a huge, expensive, damaging national mistake. His reasoning reminds me of this, from Stephen Colbert:


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