Environment, security and bread

When I went to vote in my local village in Crete, a mother had brought her children with her. It was a sizzlingly hot morning, and I know they would much rather have been in the shady playground down the road. But their presence felt very right. Kids tend to copy their parents and these siblings will grow up with the idea that voting is important, and knowing that it matters to queue up and take part in a democratic process. They were too young to vote themselves, but it focused me on whose future I was voting for. Because voting is always about the future and I was essentially voting for the world they are growing up in.

In the previous European elections five years ago (the last one that Brits could participate in), we all had different things on our minds. During that period, climate change was getting the focus it deserves and Greta Thunberg was perhaps at her height....