My comment was meant to be somewhat rhetorical: that's the question I want to see politicians answering. We have our views of course and we should express them but in the end it is the politicians who will decide so it them we need to hear. Instead we have the soundbites and have to guess their action.

Let's take a case like the EU agreed compensation rate for delayed flights. If a passenger is delayed by more than a certain number of hours they can get £600 compensation (as I did recently, which is why I can talk about this example); a similar flight I had in Asia was delated for days with no compensation.

Now that is a scheme that definitely helps consumers who are affected, at a very nominal cost to all the other consumers who are not delayed. However, if a company like BA is cutting out meals on flighta of up to 12 hours to save costs I am sure they would prefer out of the scheme.

So you have a wide range of options but broadly you can boil these down to protect consumers or benefit the business. And I would like some indicarion of the next governments attitudes.

This is of course minutiae in the scheme of things but the overall tradeoffs between citizens-consumers-businesses needs some guiding principles. Instead it is hidden behind the meaningless "Better for Britain" slogan.