As told to Anoosh Chakelian.
I think it’s always bad for any government when the official opposition is hopeless. It makes the government more accident prone. It makes it less careful. And I think overall, it’s bad for the national interest. The extent to which the way we go about pursuing the biggest disaster in modern British politics can be interrogated is rather limited because of what the opposition’s like.
[We’re told to] forget about the 48 per cent, and forget about the conventional ways in which we’ve sought to find some accommodation between majorities and minorities. That just is thrown overboard when you’ve got government by tabloids.
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