text:  in 2019 and onwards and the kind of tightening of restrictions around speech around what journalists can do and you know the closing down i think of china to the outside world and coming back to the uk has been a breath of fresh air in terms of our ability to write to knock on somebody's door and ask them who they might vote for and what they think of the prime minister i mean these are the kinds of things that are unimaginable for activists and journalists in china