A weak opposition will let the Chancellor set the agenda, and invite a ‘risk versus stability’ frame which plays to his strengths as a candidate.
From the perspective of 1997, a description of current events would seem like the ravings of a lunatic.
Hence the Prime Minister’s warning that Corbyn cannot be trusted with national security, and Betty Boothroyd’s that Labour is galloping over a precipice.
Given his appeal as a straight talker his explanations are shifty.
Also: Kendall and Kinnock turn fire on Corbyn; Burnham confirms support for contesting Ulster elections; and former Tory MEP passes on.
A legacy of the Corbyn surge, whoever wins the party’s leadership, is that getting its support for bombing in the autumn will be as problematic as ever – if not more so.
“It’s a quite incredible result that we’re facing here, with untold consequences for the Labour Party… this is potentially one of the transformative moments in British politics.”
Often the reforms are going further than anything that Margaret Thatcher achieved.
Brittany Wright doesn’t know who is responsible for education in the different parts of the United Kingdom. And it gets no better from there…
“I don’t think actually, in the end, most people will want the actually quite statist, nationalising ideas from the 20th Century.”
The burden of fixing this mess falls to those who set it in motion. It will be interventions by Miliband and Brown, should they come, which could be decisive.
We on the liberal Tory centre-Right must take apart the money-tree assumptions of the Left. But we must also turn on the voices of the populist Right.
Kandel’s work is as important as the discovery of DNA, and it will revolutionise education once it becomes more widely known.