I doubt that. Brown did reasonably well in 2010 in hindsight. His serious man for serious times thing was probably Labour's best chance. David Miliband was, is, and always will be a massively ov… (View Post)

Worth recalling that, in 1997, Lib Dem vote share dropped by one percentage point on 1992, and they gained 28 seats. Indeed, they never polled well in the early New Labour period, and had polls in si… (View Post)

I like the block capitals. Authoritative. Presidential. Not mad. (View Post)

Sunak went off the rails in the summer/early autumn. The broad strategy, embodied by Hunt and initially adopted by Sunak, of being rather boringly steady, setting and meeting some modest objectives, … (View Post)

Well, we had that for eleven days. Very much a Golden Age. (View Post)