The SDP analogies are all wrung dry. But nobody has looked at what a more recent insurgency can teach the new outfit.
Making Britain better post-Brexit will mean tough decisions about priorities. And that requires the Conservatives to know who their people are.
The Prime Minister surely knows that doing so is damaging. But she appears willing to disregard the cost out of desperation.
The President, and the wider rise of right-wing populism around the world, offers us some examples of what to do – and what not to do.
It would be easy, but mistaken, to take the path of least resistance and simply re-enact the dated Cameron ‘modernising’ agenda.
Doing so would be an opportunity for us to learn – Ukrainian forces have valuable experience of state-to-state conflict, and of Russian weaponry we have never faced.
The idea that those now entering old age somehow had it easy is completely wrong. And so is the myth that they are intolerant and narrow-minded.
Someone has to take control of the Government grid and plot a series of activities designed to reinforce each other and to build a positive narrative.
Politics requires both action and explanation.
To avoid the same fate, May needs a Brexit Surge.
The world changes in many ways, but the rules of modern campaigns are still defined by Clinton’s success in 1992.
Whatever the outcome, the Political Rules of Engagement must change if we are to restore trust in our democracy.
Our strategy was crucial to success. But last Thursday was just the beginning.
After decades of decline, the membership figures of the main political parties are on the rise. But will it make a difference?