Every June, the country’s political elite quit Copenhagen to ‘listen and reflect’ on the dreamy island of Bornholm — and it’s a treat for holidaymakers too.

On a mid-June morning in 2020, shortly after finishing a masters degree in politics in Copenhagen, Fiona Ross sailed her converted fishing boat across the Baltic to the island of Bornholm. She made landfall at Allinge only to find its small harbour full of boats, its shoreline thronged with people. Among them was Denmark’s political elite.