Politicians normally think of their “legacy” on the way out. Our new Prime Minister should make it his obsession on the way in. It should dominate his every thought, every decision he makes, every meeting he chairs, every briefing he gives.
Why? Because he has to overcome a dangerous enemy. No instruments we have can measure it. It does not show up in any official statistics. It is not counted in the inflation rate, the immigration rate, the bank rate or the crime rate. Yet, its thinking has gripped the mind of a generation.
What is it? An idea — that politics is a commodity market; that political parties are like wool or leather, commodities with “nothing to choose between them”.
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