Why One-Nation Tories can no longer make an impression on the political establishment

Ross McKibbin is a fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, and the author of Classes and Cultures: England 1918-51. His edition of Marie Stopes’s Married Love is published by Oxford.

Other articles by this contributor:

Sleazy, Humiliated, Despised · Can Labour survive Blair?

The Tax-and-Spend Vote · Ross McKibbin wonders whether the election will improve New Labour’s grasp on reality

Nothing More Divisive · The Great Secondary School Disaster

Make enemies and influence people · Ross McKibbin tells Tony Blair what to do

Mondeo Man in the Driving Seat · Blair’s Government at Mid-Term (1999)

An Element of Unfairness · the Great Education Disaster

How to put the politics back into Labour · Origins of the Present Mess

The Destruction of the Public Sphere · Brown v. Cameron