What would your employees vote for given the chance?

It's easy to throw cynicism at our MPs, but most of them don't spend their Summer recesses sunning themselves at the tax-payers expense (well, not all of it, anyway). For most, Summer recess is when they get to do the job they really signed up for when they stood for election: running clinics, engaging with local issues and getting out and about in their communities to take the pulse of public opinion face to face.

The House of Commons is due to be closed for renovations and it's not an air conditioned space. I could imagine that it is a pretty miserable place to be working, right now. If we were to do a fair comparison to a conventional workplace, it would be more like polling a large team of self-employed contractors based in an airless warehouse on whether to bring forward a home-based consolidation phase in the project timeline in response to the atypical British summer.