I'm not getting any clamoring (for a special session) from constituents or anybody else.

In fact, it tends to argue the opposite.

If one wants to start with the proposition that it's obviously in their (Conservatives') advantage to have the election in January-February, no, the data doesn't support that,

It's not for the money this time. The one thing we can't live with is class size and composition. We know that in going out, we're going to harm students, but this time, staying in the class will harm students. Do we go out, or do we stay in the class and watch students being harmed?

People are neither dismissive nor cynical, ... They believe that the changes will matter and some of the early evidence, such as the rate of goal-scoring, bears out their expectations.

Were he now to do so, he would forfeit all credibility. If he now said 'Er, I'm not sure I was right to do what I've done,' I think people would turn on him. He's set his hand to this particular plough, he's got to complete the furrow.