What do British voters want from their new Prime Minister-in-waiting? The top five choices:

  • Reduction in immigration – 60%
  • Bring the troops home from Iraq – 49%
  • Improve the National Health Service – 37%
  • Easier deportation of terrorist suspects – 30%
  • Increase state pensions by increasing taxes – 22%

That could have been a platform for any of the pre-Thatcher Butskellite governments. Oh joy.