Matt Ridley: Like the Jacobites, they’ll fade awayThe Lib Dems are for remaining in the European Union. Like Jacobites they may make common cause with Scots in the other Remain-Rejoin party, the SNP. They may even have their ’15 and their ’45, but they will eventually fade. The big problem for the Liberal Democrats is not what they stand for, but who they stand for. Think of politics as purely a contest of ideas…

Source: The Times September 19, 2017 00:45 UTC