Political narratives are extremely hard to shift once they have set. There are still people who erroneously attribute Labour’s 1992 election defeat to Neil Kinnock’s over-exuberance at a party rally. Now, as the Conservative party digests the most unpalatable result in its entire history, the first battle will be to set the official version of why they lost. And since this is central to the looming leadership contest, the fight has already begun. In fact it started well before the election.
一旦形成，政治敘事極難改變。仍有人錯(cuò)誤地將工黨1992年的選舉失敗歸咎于尼爾?金諾克(Neil Kinnock)在一次黨派集會(huì)上過于熱情洋溢。現(xiàn)在，保守黨(Conservative party)正在消化其整個(gè)歷史上最難以接受的結(jié)果，第一場(chǎng)戰(zhàn)斗將是確定他們?yōu)楹问Ю墓俜桨姹尽Ｓ捎谶@對(duì)即將到來的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人競(jìng)選至關(guān)重要，戰(zhàn)斗已經(jīng)開始。實(shí)際上，它早在選舉之前就已經(jīng)開始了。