But why not join the Conservatives and agitate for the interests of those people currently being failed by Labour? I think the poor and the vulnerable are better off under the current government than they would be under a Corbyn-led administration which I believe would make such a mess of the economy it would quickly be reduced to asking for a bail out, as Denis Healey did in 1976, and be forced to accept a more draconian form of austerity than anything dreamt of by George Osborne. But I expect you think there are ways in which the poorest 10 per cent could be better served by the Tories. So why don’t you make that case from the inside? The Prime Minister has said he wants the Conservatives to be the party of one nation. If you and your fellow moderates joined us, you could help make that vision a reality.