This is important not only because without arguments we are weak in the face of our adversaries, such as Corbyn, but also because we must keep checking that we’re right.
Often, the disagreements between the two old camps are less substantial than the disagreements erupting within each camp’s own tents.
Justified calls for a national government’s overthrow are usually confined to those in which there is a serious threat of tyranny or the breakdown of civil order.
Ridge asks him if he’s “playing to the crowd”. He says Labour’s focusing on what’s necessary.
The Conservative Party has long been the natural home of libertarians and classical liberals. That relationship might be about to get less comfortable.
Opinion polls which show Labour in contention cannot be reconciled with the public’s contempt for the party’s leader.
Recent opinion polls which show Labour doing better bear little relation to what is happening on the ground.
Brexit magnifies the question of leadership, and is giving May a decisive advantage over Corbyn.
This Welsh seat contains some Corbyn enthusiasts, but a much larger number of determined non-voters.
I feel we have gone too far in publishing and overly political manifestos which make it difficult to govern subsequently.
It’s easy, even comforting, to stick a simple narrative onto the election result. But it would be a mistake.
Momentum’s momentum doesn’t need to fizz with punch: they’ve won already.