Labour has still not won the popular vote across England among working class voters since 2001. People do have an ingrained suspicion that Labour is simply going to open the floodgates to a very radical, identitarian project of the sort that we've seen in Scotland. I'd never draw any lessons from America. It's an entirely different country, one with very few lessons from Britain. So I don't really buy the idea that this will be an election in which the cultural politics will overpower the economics of it. The change is always conspicuous and salient and makes for better copy. But underneath it, there's also some things which are continuous. And if you go into an election with a standard of

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