Southwold mayor, Melanie Tucker, looks back on a year of ‘political surprises’ and offers 2017 wishlist
2016 has been a year of political surprises, leaving 48pc of the UK's population perplexed at the apparent triumph of mendacity and credulity in one of the world's oldest democracies, and 52pc of the population delighted and enthused that the UK has a better chance of determining its own destiny outside Europe.