Sir Keir Starmer is a cautious man. But who can doubt that, with a lead of this magnitude, he'd feel emboldened to introduce hitherto concealed policies that would transform our country?
Let us imagine how we will feel in two weeks' time. Just two weeks. If the polls are to be believed, there'll be a Labour Government with an enormous majority.
The extraordinary thing is that it's voters of the centre-Right — people such as myself, and possibly you — who are about to hand the Labour leader carte blanche to govern Britain in whichever way he chooses. So, yes, I can understand the frustration that so many feel with Mr Sunak and the Conservative Party because I share it. If the Tories were closer to Labour in the polls, it would be perfectly reasonable for voters on the centre-Right to say that Rishi and Co have had their chance, and it's time to let someone else have a shot.
And, again like me, my friends are disappointed that Brexit should have so far proved a damp squib — and is plainly regarded by many ministers as an embarrassment, not to be discussed during the campaign. Meanwhile, Labour's proposals to control legal and illegal immigration are laughably vague. It has indicated in recent days that it will make overtures to Brussels, which will doubtless mark the start of our slow, humiliating return to the EU.
It would be a party deprived of most of its best and brightest MPs with a brain that has been lobotomised. For the Right to recover from such a rout could take a generation. Nigel Farage sees himself as the saviour of the British Right. I don't. How could he be when he's hellbent on destroying the Conservative Party which, for all its recent mistakes, has achieved great things for our country?
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