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When Carina tells her that she didn’t homeschool her son for kindergarten but sent him to public school, Suzanne is mildly horrified.

Trying to get a precise figure from government officials is challenging, to put it mildly, but I understand from sources it's about £600,000.

The conference, he wrote, “underscored the movement’s vision of an America rooted in limited immigration, Christian identity and the preservation of what speakers called the nation’s traditional culture” — which is putting it very mildly.

“What’s been coming out of Washington has been — putting it mildly — very confusing,” he said.

At the same time, to put it mildly, the party can hardly afford to further alienate its base.