I am the last person whom it would be reasonable to expect to leave the Conservative Party.
A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea.
No battle is worth fighting except the last one.
You have to give the electorate a tune they can whistle.
Lift the curtain and 'the State' reveals itself as a little group of fallible men in Whitehall, making guesses about the future, influenced by political prejudices and partisan prejudices, and working on projections drawn from the past by a staff of economists.
In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.