With her spring statement, the chancellor came across as the penitent cowboy builder forced to explain how the foundations ...

Keir Starmer hit on the metaphor for how he hoped to govern a couple of years ago, when he first vowed to end “sticking plaster politics”. He repeated it endlessly, because it encapsulated so much of ...

There are calls for dredging from flooded homeowners - but the Environment Agency say it is a "sticking plaster".