I’m honestly beginning to wonder. Maybe it was always like this, and I didn’t notice. But more and more it feels as if the overriding concern of British politics – or at least, the overriding concern of those of us in Westminster – is the next election. Scarcely is one election over with than we’re obsessing about the one to come. Polls and predictions, polls and predictions. Every speech, debate and announcement, every interview, every tentative suggestion, is analysed through the prism of how it might influence voters in four years’ time. That’s all that matters. That’s all there is.