well, my conversation - with allan little, the election. yeah., aren't they? i yes, of course they are reactingl to the, the backdrop, the weather makers that are the opinion polls. of course they are. and they have their own private polling, their own returns- from the knocking on the doors and all that kind of stuff, - all of the data that they have, but they're also still trying - to shape the mood and shape the mood of those who might be tempted - to vote for them. so it's all part of the kind of psychology of the lasti day, isn't it? even though it is worth emphasising, it was still quite a thing to hear- from a cabinet minister on the radio the day before a general election. i but has mel stride made himself unpopular with conservative foot soldiers and conservative candidates and other, recently, conservative mps? i mean, when you speak- to conservatives, they depending on which ones you speak to, they have a range of people | who they might put up on their sort of league table of colleagues - to be unpopular with. i think, broadly speakin

here's allan little.ety. the first was the labour landslide of 19115. put labour in. vote conservative — socialism must win. it brought swathes of the economy into public ownership — coal, steel, shipbuilding. it vastly extended the welfare state. it built millions of council houses. it founded the national health service. in this new society, levels of social and economic inequality fell dramatically. the conservatives came to accept much of this as a new reality, and a cross—party consensus formed that lasted nearly a0 years. the second transformational election was mrs thatcher's victory in 1979. she, too, would use her mandate to build a new kind of britain. the heavy industries were swept away, to be replaced by all of this — an economy based on services and especially finance. council houses were sold off and so were the public utilities. the market — not the state — would propel this new britain. under tony blair, new labour came to accept much of this new reality and a second cross—party consensus

i'll add on that an interesting sort of little background where allan talked about him going to baffinisland. he actually met and fell in love with his wife via abraham jacoby, who who he met. and jacoby was uncle by marriage, but also was the one who really brought the ideas. the 1848 revolutions to both houses family. so boaz grew in an upper middle class family in mende in germany and, a local cobbler's son was going to school with with their children and he decided he needed money for a school. so he tutored the family. and this sort of insinuated him the home. they became deep friends and brought his revolutionary ideas with him. he ended up marrying his mother's sister, but died long before boaz, born during childbirth. in the first year of their marriage. but he stayed closely connected and mentored boaz all throughout his. he supported him and he himself was a major. what would be the right word. he made a big influence the 48 revolutions and was arrested and then when he was leaving he actually went through marx and engels too and came to the united states that way and became