Leading Article: Fighting on the beaches

What lengths a woman will go for one red rose. Glenda Jackson has gone all they way to Benidorm - which, let's face it, is a long way from her Hampstead constituency - pursuing suncream-lathered young voters.

Good for Glenda. After all, we can't have people sloping off on holiday, forgetting about the nation's troubles, indulging in mindless sun and sex, escaping the important matter of who should run the country.

We should keep reminding them, whether on the ground, in the air, or on the beaches, that POLITICS MATTERS. Otherwise they might forget.