Should you be in the market for scorn towards Andy Burnham’s conference speech, there is plenty of it out there, including – shameless plug – my op-ed in the Daily Mail on the Prime Minister’s wish to make the state a vehicle for sentimentalism. But there are a few points largely overlooked in the Right’s response that should be kept in mind.

The first is that, while his speech was essentially a reheat of the speeches he gave during his 2015 leadership campaign, the perspective sketched out will sound new to voters who have only ever known cautious, triangulating, managerial Blairism of both the Labour and Tory varieties. Of course, the reason they have never experienced a soft-Left government is because the British political system has safeguards in place to prevent the soft-Left from coming to power. They are called ‘elections’.

We’re still not sure who the Right’s leader is between Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch

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