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"I loved Uruguay and the end point in Chile which looked like an Austrian ski resort which was just so different to where we started in the Amazon."

The liberal tendency to embrace "responsible conservatives" — defined as "someone who offers thoughtful critiques of the excesses of American liberalism and especially of the left" — has led to JD Vance as a vivid end point.

And bigger picture, he argues that the government’s new green investments should be assessed as “a milestone first step” rather than an end point.

He may start out in overly familiar territory, then through barely perceptible gradual changes the end point becomes an unexpected marvel.

"It needs to be more thought out, it needs to crucially have a better start and end point," he says.