"Conservative voters are not our enemies. They're our neighbours, they're our friends, and we need to be convincing them." So says my old university drinking companion, Jon Ashworth.
He was always highly ambitious, and he was therefore obliged to be a bit Blairy 20 years ago. But he was never as right-wing as we purer souls, who never laboured under the heavy burden of feeling called to be Prime Minister, used to like to half-joke that he was. No resignation to try and bring down Jeremy Corbyn for him.
Rather like Neil Fleming, whom even I have started to miss a bit around here. An erstwhile Chairman of Lanchester Parish Council would have exercised a moderating influence. "Conservative voters are not our enemies. They're our neighbours, they're our friends, and we need to be convincing them."
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