This has been a good few weeks for the prime minister and his party: they have done little to offend, not much to divide. Actually, they’ve done very little altogether. But in that time – a breather from the news – public opinion has settled into the reality of a Labour government. And early impressions – though slightly vacuous – bode well.
The last two years have seen public confidence in politicians – already low – slip once more to levels akin to the nadir of the expenses scandal in 2008/9. The Year of the Three Premiers soured the already low numbers. But now expectations that Labour will do better on the economy than the Conservatives are widespread (though expectations that Labour will “fix” the economy – fix meaning different things to different people – are low).
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