How fluid and mercurial is the condition of British politics during the party conference season of 2015. It is deliciously fascinating and worryingly disturbing in equal measure. Political horizon-scanning is a perilous trade. There is, however, quite a convincing current school of thought which argues that the Conservatives won the 2020 general election at 11.45 on the morning of Saturday, 12 September 2015, in the QEII Centre at Westminster when Jeremy Corbyn was announced as the runaway winner of the Labour leadership contest. British general elections are won in the centre ground. There is nothing centrist about Mr Corbyn, a serial dissenter who has lived on the leftward rim of Labour politics all his life. Even if his leadership endures but two or three years, Labour will h