Normally, when a Labour government is in the doldrums, the Conservatives would scoop up disaffected voters; but Kemi Badenoch, heir to the most successful and longest-lived political party in history, finds herself in the relegation zone, struggling to avoid demotion to the minor league of politics. Labour, having shed one third of the voters who put them in power last year, hopes to lure them back with a “patriotic renewal”, which will include a national identity card to clamp down on illegal migration, and a “Build, Baby, Build” planning policy to create new towns and new housing, to offer Generation Z the prospect of home ownership.