What about those who worship different gods, those who delight in civil rights movements, those mothers who want to go out to work?
There was a genuine sense of grievance that policy suggestions and campaigning ideas are never listened to.
The former Labour MP’s defection, and the later split within that party, has not yet found in a parallel in our own turbulent times.
May’s damaged authority is having a beneficial side-effect – namely, freeing Tory MPs to think aloud about the Party’s future.
The Prime Minister must explain today how reforming the system will deliver more gains for workers and familes than tearing it up.
Historically, we have developed our best new ideas and talents when in Opposition. We must break that cycle, and renew our movement now.
The Government must highlight its achievements and spell out how it will build on them, or the public will stop listening.
Our snap judgement is that Tory MPs and members are not. But there are warning signs: a fragile leader, a rusty machine – and a project that urgently needs renewal.
In an era when it is harder for young people to buy a house, or even just to pay rent, it makes sense to direct more help to them than older people who already have one.
We have allowed our enemies to infiltrate almost every power centre that matters and delegitimise our very existence.
Party Conference is, as he puts it, “increasingly corporate, expensive [and] exclusive”. So here is his first shot at something different.
Can the Prime Minister’s vision be rescued from the wreckage of the campaign?
Embracing this crude Marxist fiction has put the Conservative Party at risk of lasting electoral damage, particularly in London.
Put harshly, it can be the ideology of the free-rider, the citizen who neglects the demands of citizenship.
People are not yet at the point where they believe the party in government needs kicking out; they are still willing to give us a hearing.