The campaign feels better run, including online. People massively prefer Boris Johnson to Corbyn. The question is whether it is enough
They have a value of their own which reaches beyond their function. They gain it not by doing anything but by being something.
That the pursuit of Farron was legitimate doesn’t mean that they, or anyone else, should feel happy about it – or the bigger trends of which it was part.
This week, a stone bearing his name will be added to Westminster Abbey’s Poet’s Corner.