Are the final obstacles in the way of a comfortable Labour victory at the next election being swept away? The dirty little secret of British politics is that there is now a large amount of consensus on most big policy issues between the two main parties: the differences are largely in the detail.
The most recent citadel to fall is what one might call the cultural issues of immigration and national identity. Labour appears to be flirting, again, with Maurice Glasman’s Blue Labour, the left on economics/right on culture combination, which was also the mood music of the 2019 Tory blue-collar conservatism election.
Democracy is having its wicked way and its magical force-field is forcing Labour to pretend that it is not, deep in its bones, a party of liberal graduates, as it tries to win back those small-c conservative voters the Tories nicked from them over Brexit.
On national identity the party has already sung God Save the King and Keir Starmer is rarely pictured far from a Union Jack.
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