Nothing could illustrate the importance of an effective opposition better than the events of 2020.
First, and most obviously, monitoring and questioning the government's response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Second, in holding the government to account over the truly dizzying flurry of scandals that has engulfed it, day after day, week after week.
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