Next year, election year, will be the 60th anniversary of Harold Wilson’s rather partial triumph with his four-seat majority Labour government of 1964. He had to go back to the country for a second election 18 months later, which gave him the majority that saw him through to defeat in 1970 at the hands of an astonished Edward Heath. Polls – a warning here – are not always a guide to voting patterns.
So 60 years later we are facing the chance of a revitalised Labour opposition preparing for power, and getting it. There is
