text:  Others in the mainstream will say they essentially lost because they lost their reputation for competence, for governing well, and because people in Britain were not feeling better off. That's the debate that's got to be had. And of course, there's a bit of truth in both. I veer very much towards the second explanation that fundamentally they lost because the country thought they were doing a very bad job and was fed up with them. But that debate will focus which way they go in terms of their future leadership and obviously their future direction more generally.