What's the point of MPs?

650 come to Westminster, but what should they do when they get there?

At present some of the most critical contests in our democracy are being played out. In draughty church halls and scruffy social clubs, small cliques of our political parties are in the midst of reselections, deselections and the choice of candidates for the next general election. These small, often ignored, contests have outsized importance in our demo…