What is Labour for? If it can’t work that out, the party truly is finished

The most unusual thing about Labour’s landslide victory in the general election of 2024 was the gap between its colossal majority of 174 and the small total of its votes – 9,708,716. Only once in the past century (Labour in 2005, post-Iraq war) has a party won an overall majority with fewer than 10 million votes.