By Iain Dale

I understand why so many people are disillusioned with politics and politicians, but that being said, politics never fails to amaze, even if it doesn’t inspire.

We live in an age of political fluidity, where party allegiances no longer mean an awful lot. Political parties have always been quote tribal.

Many is the time I’ve knocked on a door to be told “We’re a Labour family. Always have been, always will be”, or “My Dad was a Conservative, so was his Dad, and so are we”.

This is happening increasingly less as political barriers are broken down. You can date it back to 1970 when Margaret Thatcher offered traditional Labour voters the chance to buy their own council houses. This was psephologically transformative.

As the years went on, Labour morphed from a party of the working........

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