We’re months away from a general election whose outcome has already been determined. Rishi Sunak has repeatedly demonstrated that he is no political Lazarus, and the question is not whether the Conservatives will lose the election but by how much – and how long they will take to recover, or whether their party will survive at all.

So the focus is on Labour’s strategy for entry into government and beyond.

The Britain Labour will inherit is barely recognisable from the country of only 20 years ago. No matter the high-blown rhetoric of Sunak and Jeremy Hunt about the UK’s economic performance, our country has been brought to its knees over the past 14 years, and people now know it.

These days we are classified by generations. I am one of those lucky baby boomers, who, though born in a slum, thanks to council housing, free education and work and wages secured by trade union power, came to expect every year to be better than the last and every generation to benefit from the foundations laid by the previous one.

Margaret Thatcher punctured that dream in the 1980s, but the return of Labour in 1997 until........

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