Success in
politics, as with so many things, is often about learning from past mistakes.
What is surprising, perhaps, is how few in politics – full as they are of their
own sense of certainty – are able to do this.
Following last
week’s catastrophic election results for the Labour Party, which saw millions
of their traditional supporters abandon them for the Brexit Party, Labour moved
further towards supporting a second referendum. As the party inched towards
formally repudiating the views of 17.4 million people, it seems its leaders are
quite incapable of learning from what happened in 2015.
