Peter Hoskin

Are Labour going the way of Major’s Tories?

Daniel Finkelstein highlights this fascinating graph over at Comment Central.  The red line represents Labour’s opinion poll ratings since 2005; the blue line those of John Major’s government between 1992 and 1997.  With the exception of a Labour spike during the “Brown bounce”, the correlation sure is striking:

Read next

Trending

Francis Pike

Why Tulip Siddiq had to go

In 1996, I flew to Dhaka to meet Sheikh Hasina, the newly elected prime minister of Bangladesh, to discuss her economic strategy. It was not a pleasant experience. Hasina was humourless, arrogant and bitter – by a long stretch, the most unlikeable politician I’ve met in the sub-continent. By contrast her diminutive niece, Tulip Siddiq, Labour’s anti-corruption minister who has just resigned over

Also in Politics

Also by Peter Hoskin

Latest

Comments

Join the debate for just $5 for 3 months

Be part of the conversation with other Spectator readers by getting your first three months for $5.

Already a subscriber? Log in