Welcome to the era of Daily Mail socialism

Staff of the Morning Lark , the fictional tabloid that crops up in a few Martin Amis novels, are known as its “wankers” The Lark aimed at “the unemployed” is a second cousin to the Daily Star , dealing in royal news , football news and pornography (ideally all three at once) For some of Labour ’s modern constituency, the McSweeney turn is viewed as betrayal.

With the ascendancy of McSweeney’s Labour Party , we are seeing this Labour tradition in its 21st-century form.

For the parts of the left that turned Brenda Hale into an anti-Brexit hero, for the public-sector workers who reliably vote Labour , such talk will seem heretical.

This is the age of Daily Mail socialism, and its enemies are as easily personified as its Middle England constituents.