Has the right pary won since 1928?

For political students Danny Finkelstein has a good column in the Times today.

He argues that The British voter never gets it wrong. At every election in the past 80 years the right party has won

The 80 years of course takes us back to the first election under universal suffrage and his thesis is established under the 1992 election,when the country rejected Neil Kinnock even in the face of an unpopular Tory party

Neil Kinnock was entirely unsuited to being Prime Minister. His endless whirling speeches showed that. As John Major pricelessly commented, as Kinnock didn't know what he was saying, he never knew when he had finished saying it. And alongside this unsuitability was Labour's programme, still only partly modernised and containing a ragtag of unfunded spending promises and threats of greater regulation.

But are there instances when the wring party one.I tend to agree with Danny over 92 but what about Wilson in 74? Or going back further in time,to the Tory wins in 1950 and 51.

I am sure this debate will run and run today

Big guns turn up to campaign in Manchester

We have had two prominent Tories and an ex leader of the Labour Party all campaigning in Manchester in the last couple of days.

David Cameron revisited the streets of Salford following in the footsteps of his hero Morrissey (Read Ailsa Cranna piece in the Salford Advertiser here)

George Osbourne was in Whalley where according to the MEN,he had some choice remarks for Gordon Brown

Mr Brown was a man who had wanted to be Prime Minister "since he was 10",
but had lost his way in a political fight for survival."He has no clue what his
vision is and no clue about how to run the country," said Mr Osborne, the Tatton
MP. "No one doubts he came into politics with good motives and things he
believed in. But they are lost in the day-to-day calculations he makes in how to
eke out a political advantage.

Meanwhile Lord Kinnock again according to the same paper urged

party members not to react like Corporal Jones from Dad's Army to Gordon Brown's recent woes.
The former leader predicted the prime minister would bounce back in the polls and prove the people's choice when the global economic waters got rough.