The Conservatives need to support genuine allies – such as savers, home owners, small businesses, and the armed forces.
The PM lost her majority by running a single issue campaign which left Corbyn the chance to pose as the champion of ordinary people.
The Electoral Reform Society calculates that a tiny change in votes would have given May a bare majority last spring. But how much difference would this have made?
Such a generational shift in peacetime is remarkable, and strengthens the case for a member of a recent intake to succeed the Prime Minister.
The shock over the overall result has distracted us from how remarkable some of each party’s gains really were.
May won five per cent more of the vote than Cameron did two years ago. The margin between having a majority and not having one was performance in marginal seats.
Coalitions are the new normal…”banging on about Europe” is inherently unpopular…no-one will ever listen to the polls again.
Remember when Tory strategists fretted about getting the public to believe Labour were a real risk? Problem solved.
The charges relate to the 2015 General Election campaign in South Thanet.
Plus, we now present the different potential outcomes in each seat on a variety of turnouts.
Detoxifying the Party never meant moving to the left – this year’s manifesto was well to the left economically of anything we advocated.