VERDICT

ASKED in 1972 about the significance of a French revolution almost 200 years earlier, China’s Communist leader Zhou Enlai reputedly replied it was too soon to say. Caution is also sensible immediately after the fire and brimstone of the party conference season, yet we might be witnessing a swing from Right to Left in our politics. The warring Conservatives looked on the way out and a-little-more-united Labour on the way in. Theresa May’s rhetoric was a universe away from the grim reality of the past eight Tory years. Austerity was an ideological choice by the Conservatives and communities were kept behind, not left behind, in a reign of terror. And how dishonest to pretend the financial fatwa is over when benefit cuts alone will make lower-paid workers poorer.

The PM condemned the abuse of Labour’s Diane Abbott but failed to disown bigoted Tory students or apologise for her racist “Go Home” vans and the Windrush scandal.

Europe and Boris Johnson will continue to destroy her, and May failed to match Jeremy Corbyn’s hope and vision.

By mentioning Labour and Corbyn 27 times and the Conservatives just 15, May showed she is a spooked PM.