Labour might be a racing certainty, but it faces some big hurdles in government

With Brexit fast becoming a tragedy, Keir Starmer needs to forge a closer relationship with Europe On the day before the 1992 general election, the bookmakers at Ascot were offering odds of 6-1 against John Major's Conservatives winning. I was with the economist Roger Bootle, and we agreed that Labour, well ahead in the polls, was bound to win. It was pointless betting on the Tories, even at those odds. When the results came in we kickedourselves. When I told Lord Kinnock, the Labour leader at t...