Conservative MPs should not sit idly by as their party’s ratings sink to the mid-30s and below. There’s reason to think the change isn’t temporary.
The shock over the overall result has distracted us from how remarkable some of each party’s gains really were.
As time passes, a decreasing slice of the electorate has any experience at all of old-fashioned socialism. And the argument that it doesn’t work cuts little ice.
Gender, race and sexuality dominated the early phases of Tory modernisation. The Prime Minister is now scaling the most challenging peak: class.
People listened to John Major when he was responding to hecklers.
Most produce results that are more or less what a reader of opinion polls and other electoral data might have anticipated a few months in advance.
Major’s success was the polling companies’ failure. This time, Cameron must deliver more.
7.3. 25-35. 1992. And – last but not least – 9.
Having entered Parliament from business, I know first-hand that prosperity is not created by government.