You're certainly right that the Tories' full-throated support of the Iraq debacle seems to have been almost entirely expunged from the public's memory - or at least that of the rightwi… (View Post)

Thatcher was in quite bad trouble from the Wets in Winter 1981-2, IIRC from pretty young politics-watching, and was somewhere around -10 at the beginning of the year. There was that slight improvemen… (View Post)

It does make him look a bit more thuggish, slightly. The Boris of the football shirt who knocked over a younger player on the pitch. Still, he's probably just happy not to look like total chaos … (View Post)

I have to say I do think the country would have been far better for an SDP win in 1983, with both Foot and Thatcher humliated. So much less polarisation, and probably a much more consensual future al… (View Post)

I do wonder if all this furore might have been another factor in helping the Tories slightly recently. Starmer clearly takes Blair as a partial inspiration, and part of his focus seems to have been t… (View Post)