The Tories were ahead by double digits from 1967-69, but Harold Wilson staged a remarkable comeback, in 1970, coming close to winning. The Tories gained boroughs like Hackney, Islington, Sheffield, L… (View Post)

Unlike Reform, UKIP were winning a lot of council seats and doing well in by-elections. (View Post)

The Conservatives became a rabble, once May lost her majority. At the same time, all governments would have struggled with the fallout from the GFC, Covid, and Ukraine. These three are the equivalent… (View Post)

May’s plans were actually quite fair, but mid-election was not the time to announce them. (View Post)

My own view is that had we kept wide swathes of the economy nationalised, retained exchange controls, kept subsidising coal, ship, and car production, retained the closed shop, secondary picketing, a… (View Post)