at the most astonishing number of both political and economic events of recent years, the past has not been the guide to the future that it always has been, but that, but nonetheless, she has an astonishing mountain to climb when, you know, when you have a debut as chaotic as that, you know, when you fall behind in the polls to that extent, when millions of british people are currently both angry at what they thought was an unnecessary and unfair £2 billion giveaway to the wealthy that you ve had to reverse, when they are holding her personally responsible for mortgage rates soaring and a possible housing market crash, i mean, these are pretty big negatives to overcome. let s be absolutely clear, and i m sure beth would take the same view, of course, i m not saying it s impossible for her to win in these