PeterCorner

Four scored votes, three of them pulling left, and every one of them practical rather than ideological: schools should chase down attendance, AI tutoring should go to disadvantaged pupils first, pension funds should be steered toward British firms. This isn't protest politics — it's a belief that the state should actively shape outcomes, especially for kids who start behind.

You're rarely the rebel — nine times out of ten you land with the national majority, including on the AI Tutoring Programme, where you backed disadvantaged-pupil support even as most voters said no (33% yes nationally). That's the one moment your left instincts overrode the room.

Hemel Hempstead has gone unanimously with you on every single vote so far — ten for ten. Early days, but right now there's no daylight between you and your neighbours; you're the mainstream of your own street.

You've voted on schools, energy and pensions but never once on welfare, housing, immigration, health or justice — the votes that usually define a left-right identity most sharply. Right now you're a strong education-and-economy voter with almost no profile everywhere else.

Four scored votes is a sketch, not a portrait — cast a few more on housing or welfare and we'll know whether that education conviction runs through everything, or whether it's its own thing. Every vote you cast from here sharpens this; come back next week and see who you've become.