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When campaigning to stay in power ahead of the 2016 elections, Mahama highlighted various infrastructure projects completed under his administration, such as those in the transportation, health, and education sectors.

“I wasn’t campaigning for it, but I was thirsting for something different, completely removed from the work I had been doing up to that point,” Jenkins said.

“The rhetoric and campaigning is important because it signals the policies to come,” said Gaurav Khanna, an economist at UC San Diego who researches foreign students and workers in the labor market.

He also began campaigning for the legalisation of cannabis and stood for election to Parliament in 1997 on a single-issue ticket of reforming drugs laws.

After all, in campaigning against the Tories in the general election this summer, Labour had carefully crafted a policy which appeared designed to minimise controversy, and to avoid becoming dragged into the debate about Rosebank.