Within the party, policies of the free market feel old school – and the language associated with it even more so.
Most obviously, this complicates their Net Zero strategy; you would have expected fiscal policy increasingly to have rebalanced towards green taxes.
Mainly because people didn’t want troops to be there (or in the Middle East) in the first place.
Delivering the target will require huge lifestyle changes, but you can’t ask voters to do what you’re not doing yourself.
Starmer could show he understands the priorities of working class voters by spending more on universities and backing an English Parliament.
The single most important thing for right-leaning outsiders to understand is that boards don’t control most of a firm’s political comment.
Asked who is to “blame” for children falling behind, most parents blame “the pandemic” rather than the Government.
From Brexit, to the vaccine rollout, to trade, to Hong Kong, Johnson has plenty of good stories to tell – if not blown off course by Scotland.
It shouldn’t need stating, but clearly does, that the spectrum as we think of it has zero resonance with the public.
It’s already about more than narrow questions of governance – and should expand to cover the role clubs play in local communities.
Despite the recent bad press, the overall numbers suggest the institution is probably here to stay.
To make ‘global Britain’ work, ministers will need to do more to defend British companies against politically-motivated attacks.
I don’t think it will lead to a serious drop in support – but officers will likely not have the same benefit of the doubt after the next such incident.
It’s a dangerous game, relying solely on polling to judge the state of public opinion: it never tells the full story.
The danger for them of not striking a deal now is that a vote on bringing the target back will be an even harder battle to win later.