What is playing out in the Labour Party is a syndrome that should be all too recognisable to a Tory: a party sent mad by the success of a reforming leader. It took the Tories a long time to recover from the greatness of Margaret Thatcher and, as Tim Montgomerie observes, she is still the figure against whom many are measured, or wish to be measured. Labour are now just as obsessed with Blair – their last leader to win an election – as the Tories were with Thatcher for over a decade. Now, the best advice to Labour would be to forget Tony – particularly as I have it on very good authority that he is not coming back.