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“... Democrats. In Haywire, his steely account of Britain’s backfiring start to the new millennium, Andrew Hindmoor suggests that Cameron’s announcement was intended as a sop to those on the right of his party who were agitating against his plan to introduce gay marriage (when it came to a vote, nearly half the parliamentary party anyhow opposed the ...”

“... or devising creative theories about the motivations of Labour voters (the political theorist Andrew Hindmoor suggests that people only voted Labour because they were sure the party wouldn’t win) – the ‘unelectability’ objection has now largely been dropped. But electability or public opinion were never the real issues at stake for Corbyn’s ...”

“... one of his sons put it, ‘he might win’. The 2017 manifesto was written by his head of policy, Andrew Fisher, who hoped that people would read it ‘and say: “Fuck, yeah, I’m voting Labour.”’ It set out big policies, including public ownership of the railways and Royal Mail, banning zero hours contracts, and higher income tax for those on more than ...”