STEPHEN GLOVER: You'd expect the Tories, after 14 years in power, to be stale and listless, and Labour to be buzzing with new ideas after its long period in the wilderness. The opposite is the case.
I don't pretend I'll suffer withdrawal symptoms when it's all over, but nonetheless it seems to me a fascinating contest.
Sir Keir Starmer's approach is evidently to say as little as possible, and to hope that his party will be swept to power on the back of the Conservatives' supposedly appalling record. No Labour politician opens his or her mouth without uttering the words 'Tory chaos'. The trouble is that an election campaign creates its own reality. Labour runs a risk if it continues to clam up. It may not be enough to bang on about Tory historic failures. Voters, or some of them, want a better idea than they have so far been given of how Labour would govern, of what it would actually do.
My prayer is that these genuinely Conservative policies are not gimmicks that will be forgotten, either in the still rather unlikely event of the Tories retaining power, or of defeat. Let these not be ideas just for an election campaign but for government or opposition. Yet Sir Keir has had four years as leader of his party. He may have expunged the wilder Corbynite elements .
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