Sarah Harte: Our ageing voters deserve dignity and respect

Our infrastructure is creaking, and our population is expanding fast

British Labour MP Kim Leadbeater among supporters of Dignity in Dying, celebrating the result of the vote on the terminally ill adults (end of life) bill, outside the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, London. Picture: Yui Mok/PA Wire

Horse trading has begun to form the new government. 

To murder WH Auden’s poem, an election for many of us is a case of stopping all the clocks, cutting off the telephone, preventing the dog from barking with a juicy bone, and hunkering down on the sofa to keep up with who’s in a dog fight for the last seat in a constituency you’ve never been to.