in tune

However, he argued that the Liberal Democrats could be the alternative by offering "radical change... in tune with British values".

He said his party offered "the change that is in tune with those values - to have a decent caring country".

"I'll never be able to sing that perfectly in tune. And that's not the point. I don't want to. I'm human."

After a few generations under the sun, Mayo concluded, “it will settle back to normalcy, and become in tune with nature, for man has never yet failed to adjust himself to the climate in which he lives.”

This reshuffling of the power structure was presented abroad by regime mouthpieces as moving from a strong presidential system to a supposedly more democratic "parliamentary" model – in tune with the traditions of the Commonwealth, which Togo, like Gabon, had joined in 2022, to broaden its international connections and reduce reliance on traditional francophone links with France, the former colonial ruler.