Cast your mind back only a few years ago, and remember how easy it was to castigate our politicians for being too similar. Any half-minded observer could recite the claim that the Tory and Labour front benches all looked the same, that they all attended the same public schools and then universities, and muse how only a cigarette paper could be wedged between their manifestos. How things have changed. It is now almost a cliché to say we are ‘bitterly divided’ and our society and politics are too polarised.
