There is a radical, ambitious zeal evident throughout the document, and it is shown again in the desire to end iniquitous disparities between the generations.
May has a campaign for the country. She must complement it, as best she can, with one for you and your family.
The polls may be overstating the Opposition; Corbyn may under-perform his national share in key marginals; or the Tories may just be slipping.
“Throughout the ’80s and the ’90s you spoke at scores of hardline Republican gatherings which backed the IRA and the armed struggle.”
The Labour leader pledged “change at home and abroad” would reduce the threat of terrorism.
For the most part, those in SW1 don’t actually set out to deceive the public. The trouble is – they deceive themselves.
Plus: A diplomatic success for Trump. A Love Actually moment, please, from May. And: has anyone seen Diane Abbott?
“It is an appalling act of violence against people, and it must be totally, unreservedly and completely condemned.”
The Prime Minister has shown determination and boldness – and the alternative is enormous tax increases under Corbyn.
Tory voters on the Devon coast show no sign of being worried by the manifesto muddle, nor is there a Liberal Democrat revival.
She wouldn’t have chosen for it to be this way. But the biggest issues – Brexit and Corbyn – are still the same.
Unless either the UK or the EU want a trade war, its most likely consequence would be making use of a mass of small deals to achieve sizeable gains.
“I’ve just condemned all those who did bombing on both sides…I don’t quite know the point you’re trying to make here.”
For most of those considering a change of parties, this left one viable option: “I hate to say it, but the Tories.”