Matthew Syed was a table tennis player, who became a table tennis pundit, who became a pundit in general. Footballers who try to do that are howled down. Yet as I write, Syed is opining on Newsnight.
Syed told last year's Conservative Party Conference that he had become a Conservative specifically because that was the present vehicle for the New Labour of 2001, for which he told the adoring audience that he was "proud" to have been a parliamentary candidate, and from which all parties except the Conservatives had "moved wildly to the left".
The 2001 Labour manifesto, Syed asserted, "was miles to the right of almost anything you see in British politics today", hence his pride. He called Nigel Farage "a Socialist, way to the left economically of the Corbyn-McDonnell manifesto of 2017", and he stated that that was why he had joined the Conservative Party, which gave him a standing ovation. Now he is "the Conservative commentator, Matthew Syed".
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