All of these questions are ultimately asking the same thing: should Starmer try to save his skin by feinting left or right? As for Labour, why does it look so aimless, how can it convey its mission rather than merely a list of policies, how can it stop backtracking and how did it achieve this deep, cross-spectrum unpopularity? It always arrives at the same dilemma – do you care about values (left) or do you care about victory (right)? Whenever Reform is riding high, the victory camp get more splenetic: are you seriously saying you won’t just knuckle down, support this party, do whatever it takes to defeat the hard right? It’s like being told off by your mum in a supermarket. Have your tantrum, but not here, not now.