Buried but not yet dead, senior Labour figures are right to be haunted by the fear of a Conservative resurrection.
Harold Wilson in 1970, Neil Kinnock in 1992, Ed Miliband in 2015 and at times Jeremy Corbyn before the 2019 disaster thought they’d win – and lost.
It feels different in 2023 with Keir Starmer’s consistent huge poll leads and public patience snapping with a fourth Tory PM and 13 years of failure.
