Day: 13 July 2016

I have just heard the most left of centre speech of any incoming Tory Prime Minister since Harold Macmillan. The make up of the Cabinet will tell us whether there is substance behind the words. I strongly suspect there is. This will indeed be an administration with a difference.

By comparison to the Tories, Labour is a rough house, but it is much more open, a good deal more emotional, far less politically astute and very much more driven by a sense of mission. Mission trumps ambition. So when things leave the rails, the pile up is a big one and it takes a […]