Shortly before the 2001 election, Robert Harris began a column with the memorable words, "There is something truly loathsome about the modern Labour party". Writing as someone who had longed to see the Tories thrown out four years earlier, he meant the mendacity of the Downing Street junta, he meant the way Tony Blair had begun his campaign with a nauseating speech at a girls' school ("foundations laid for a brighter future ... beacons lit showing us a better way"), he meant the skulking figure of Alastair Campbell, he meant the way a turncoat like Shaun Woodward had been parachuted into a safe seat.
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