A lethal combination of strategic incoherence and operational incompetence has seen the Remain wave pass the would-be mould-breakers by.
The Rail Delivery Group has just suggested a more modern system of tickets and fares. But such change should be only the start.
P.S: We carry pieces and speeches from all types of Ministers – including one from the Work and Pensions Secretary herself yesterday.
The female MPs elected in 2015 and 2017 don’t think or act as a block. But most are loyalists – and their take will carry weight.
Plus: the Conservative share of the vote may fall lower than ten per cent in the European elections.
As the MP for the city seat for twelve years, I suppose I am as good a guide as anyone to the campaign ahead.
Some Ministers think that a Brexit Party win there could shift Labour to back May’s deal. But there’s an issue with timing.
His critics claim his appointment as International Development Secretary “could lead to the death of thousands of the world’s poorest people”.
The Partido Popular shifted far enough from the centre to lose votes on its left, while legitimising a competitor to its right.
‘Liberal democracy’ is not an inevitable combination. Nor, it seems, is it necessarily a sustainable one.
We are heading towards a 1997-type defeat unless we make fundamental and radical changes to our machinery and to our policies.
We need MEPs from a party whose commitment is not just informed by the desire to leave but also by a vision of what we should do when we have left.