None the less, the local Conservatives exploited the climate of prejudice, while Labour sometimes bent to accommodate it.
It has been where there is an air of panic and chaos, with a government forced to bow its knee to the markets, that there is real political damage.
They will be strange, edgy experiences: I can hardly wait.
Plus: August, the best political month. Thatcher, the best post-war Prime Minister. Off to Any Questions. Off to Edinburgh. And: will I poison an MP?
The most recent former Prime Minister to have done likewise was James Callaghan in 1983. Heath spent 27 years in the Commons after departing Number 10.
And the worst example? Blair and Brown in their second term.
If Corbyn triumphs today, it will be because his party stopped criticising itself in any meaningful way.
“I tell you in all candour, that the option of taxing your way out of a deficit no longer exists”
The question for you in this Open Letter is whether you will continue, develop and deepen that Conservative pledge to put human rights at the heart of foreign policy.
Our politicians have left a rhetorical vacuum into which nationalist politicians – Salmond and Farage – have moved.
…a deal with DUP? The Guardian floats one today – as Mel Stride did recently on this site.
Plus: Boris’ big MP hurdle. Why Helmer is a disastrous by-election choice. Anonymous MEPs. And: No. 10’s cup of cold sick.
Arundells, a beautiful early Georgian house nestling beneath the famous spire of Salisbury Cathedral, is open for guided tours.
My guess is that he would have argued that this is a matter for Parliament, with no need to resort to the judiciary.