Theresa May’s push for the centre ground is doomed. Blame Brexit | Matthew d’Ancona

The prime minister claims to embody moderation and decency. Yet hers is the party of Jacob Rees-Mogg and Boris Johnson

Life is full of unexpected symmetries. In 1996, I interviewed Tony Blair for the Sunday Telegraph at Labour’s conference in Blackpool: mindful of the newspaper’s readership, he made an explicit pitch to “one-nation Tories” disaffected by John Major’s supposed “lurch to the right”. His message was: your true home now is New Labour and its “big tent”.

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